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.
HOMERCome then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.
More Homer Quotes
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Noblest minds are easiest bent.
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There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
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Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero.
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I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.
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Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.
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Have patience, heart.
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We men are wretched things.
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Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.
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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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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
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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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In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
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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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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.
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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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