"His descent was like nightfall." — Homer
"His descent was like nightfall."
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410 Quotes by Homer
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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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More Descent Quotes
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one of 156 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.
— Tia Carrere
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No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of…
— Franz Boas
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The United Nations and the Organization of American States have named 2011 as the International Year for People of African…
— Hillary Clinton
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The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African…
— Ban Ki-moon
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The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
— Anaxagoras
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Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray...
— Richard Wilbur
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The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.
— Anaxagoras
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It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species';…
— Charles Darwin
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I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits…
— Mark Twain
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I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but…
— Charles Darwin
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Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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