I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other’s arms.
HOMERYoung men’s minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
More Homer Quotes
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There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
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Immortals are never alien to one another.
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You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
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A woman is a lot like a refrigerator. Six feet tall, 300 pounds, it makes ice.
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I long for home, long for the sight of home.
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Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.
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No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man’s hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.
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No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
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The proud heart feels not terror nor turns to run and it is his own courage that kills him.
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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
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Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
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To speak his thoughts is every freeman’s right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.
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The force of union conquers all.
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There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.
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Youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.
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