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• All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.

  Homer

  Hateful, Miserable, Mortals

  Odyssey VII.215

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• What mighty woes
  To thy imperial race from woman rose.

  Homer

  Women, Race, Rose

  Homer (1806). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.331

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• Will cast the spear and leave the rest to Jove.

  Homer

  Trust, Casts, Spears

  Homer (1898). “The Iliad of Homer”

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• Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.

  Homer

  Wine, Thoughtful, Men

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• All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

  Homer

  War, Home, Sea

  Homer (1981). “The illustrated Odyssey”

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• Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.

  Homer

  Mind, Banquets, Discourse

  Homer, John Selby WATSON (1858). “The Odyssey of Homer; Translated by Alexander Pope. To which are Added the Battle of the Frogs and Mice by Parnell; and the Hymns by Chapman and Others. With Observations and Brief Notes by the Rev. J. S. Watson ... Illustrated with the Entire Series of Flaxman's Designs”, p.251

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• 'Yea and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous stone with both his hands. He was pressing thereat with hands and feet, and trying to roll the stone upward toward the brow of the hill. But oft as he was about to hurl it over the top, the weight would drive him back, so once again to the plain rolled the stone, the shameless thing. And he once more kept heaving and straining, and the sweat the while was pouring down his limbs, and the dust rose upwards from his head.

  Homer

  Sad, Strong, Dust

  Homer “The Odyssey of Homer: Several Versions”, Library of Alexandria

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• Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms, longed for as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer spent in rough water where his ship went down under Poseidon's blows, gale winds and tons of sea. Few men can keep alive through a big serf to crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches in joy, in joy, knowing the abyss behind: and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband, her white arms round him pressed as though forever.

  Homer

  Beach, Husband, Eye

  Homer, Robert Fitzgerald (1963). “The Odyssey”, Anchor

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• My wife's not some doobie to be passed around! I took a vow on our wedding day to bogart her for life.

  Homer

  Wife, Wedding Day, Vow

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• I say no wealth is worth my life.

  Homer

  Wealth

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• For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.

  Homer

  Pain, Men, Long

  Homer, George Herbert Palmer (1998). “The Odyssey”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind

  Homer

  Inspirational, Teenager, Thinking

  Homer (1937). “The story of Odysseus”

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• Oh, everything looks bad if you remember it.

  Homer

  Looks, Remember, Great Simpsons

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• We men are wretched things.

  Homer

  Men, Wretched

  "Troy". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.

  Homer

  Sleep, Too Much, Concerned

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• It is not right to glory in the slain

  Homer

  Glory

  Homer, George Herbert Palmer (1998). “The Odyssey”, p.220, Courier Corporation

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• Immortals are never alien to one another.

  Homer

  Aliens

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• I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf... than be king of all these dead and destroyed.

  Homer

  Kings, Soil, Serfs

  "Odyssey". Poem by Homer,

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• Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire.

  Homer

  Prayer, Heart, Men

  Homer (2013). “The Homer Anthology”, p.1704, eBookIt.com

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• You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!

  Homer

  Running, War, Heart

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• The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

  Homer

  God, Casts, Glorious

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• Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Life, Failure

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• Pine needle sorbet? Pine needle sorbet?! My kids do NOT eat sorbet. They eat sherbet, and they pronounce it sherbert, and they wish it was ice cream!

  Homer

  Kids, Ice Cream, Wish

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• But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be one./ Time was, when you were alive, we Argives/ honored you as a god, and now down here, I see/ You Lord it over the dead in all your power./ So grieve no more at dying, great Achilles.’ I reassured the ghost, but he broke out protesting,/ ‘No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus!/ By god, I’d rather slave on earth for another man--/ Some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—than rule down here over all the breathless dead.

  Homer

  Grieving, Winning, Men

  Homer (2008). “Odyssey, Homer”, Spark Publishing Group

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• Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

  Homer

  Son, Rage From The Iliad, Achilles

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