"By turns the nine delight to sing" — Homer
"By turns the nine delight to sing"
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Homer
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410 Quotes by Homer
Homer has 410 quotes on this site.
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Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table.
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Young people are thoughtless as a rule.
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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
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Better to flee from death than feel its grip.
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Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.
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By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.
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It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
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Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.
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For love deceives the best of woman kind.
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The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
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Light is the task where many share the toil.
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Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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