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More Jove Quotes

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• By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent. — Homer
• The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A… — Joseph Conrad
• By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it… — Janet Flanner
• When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic… — James Joyce
• Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of… — Gustave Flaubert
• Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is… — John Kenneth Galbraith
• No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone… — James Joyce
• The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved,… — Edmund Waller
• To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe. — Homer
• 'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth. — Homer
• We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, and… — Joseph Conrad
• Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright,… — Thomas Gray

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