"Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven,……" — Homer
"Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links Both Goddesses and Gods."
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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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