"Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of…" — Homer
"Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death"
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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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Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.
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The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.
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Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.
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Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a…
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You may imitate, but never counterfeit.
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