A small rock holds back a great wave.
HOMERThe proud heart feels not terror nor turns to run and it is his own courage that kills him.
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There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible – magic to make the sanest man go mad.
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Few sons are like their fathers, most are worse, few better.
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Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.
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A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.
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It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.
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Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind.
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The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return.
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Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
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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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For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother.
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The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.
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I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another.
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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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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
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There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
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