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The Odyssey by Homer
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"Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man."
― Homer, The Odyssey

"At that place is a time for many words, and there is as well a time for slumber."
― Homer, The Odyssey

"There is nothing more admirable than when two people who come across eye to eye keep house as man and married woman, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends."
― Homer, The Odyssey

"A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time"
― Homer, The Odyssey

"Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier;
I have seen worse sights than this."
― Homer, The Odyssey

"For a friend with an agreement heart is worth no less than a blood brother"
― Homer, The Odyssey

"Slumber, succulent and profound, the very counterfeit of expiry"
― Homer, The Odyssey

"Men are then quick to blame the gods: they say
that we devise their misery. But they
themselves- in their depravity- design
grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns."
― Homer, The Odyssey

"Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come up all their miseries yes but they themselves with their ain reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share."
― Homer, The Odyssey

"[I]t is the wine that leads me on,
the wild vino
that sets the wisest man to sing
at the superlative of his lungs,
laugh like a fool – it drives the
homo to dancing... it even
tempts him to blurt out stories
better never told."
― Homer, The Odyssey

"The blade itself incites to deeds of violence."
― Homer, The Odyssey

"Each human delights in the work that suits him best."
― Homer, The Odyssey

"some things you volition think of yourself,...some things God will put into your heed"
― Homer, The Odyssey

"There volition exist killing till the score is paid."
― Homer, The Odyssey

"Now from his breast into the optics the ache
of longing mounted, and he wept at last,
his dearest wife, clear and faithful, in his arms,
longed for equally the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer
spent in crude water where his ship went down
under Poseidon's blows, gale winds and tons of sea.
Few men tin keep alive through a big serf
to crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches
in joy, in joy, knowing the completeness behind:
and and then she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband,
her white arms round him pressed equally though forever."
― Homer, The Odyssey

"Few sons are like their fathers--most are worse, few meliorate."
― Homer, The Odyssey

"Take courage, my middle: you have been through worse than this. Be stiff, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I take seen worse sights than this."
― Homer, The Odyssey

"Why cover the aforementioned ground again? ... It goes confronting my grain to repeat a tale told in one case, and told so clearly."
― Homer, The Odyssey

"Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-night deep,
nevertheless I volition endure…
For already take I suffered total much,
and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war.
Let this be added to the tale of those."
― Homer, The Odyssey

"Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
of that man skilled in all means of contending,
the wanderer, harried for years on end"
― Homer, The Odyssey

"Immortals are never alien to 1 another."
― Homer, The Odyssey

"So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. One man may neglect to impress us with his looks but a god can crown his words with beauty, charm, and men look on with delight when he speaks out. Never unpleasing, filled with winning self-command, he shines forth at assembly grounds and people gaze at him similar a god when he walks through the streets. Another man may look similar a deathless one on loftier just there's not a bit of grace to crown his words. Just like yous, my fine, handsome friend."
― Homer, The Odyssey

"Fifty-fifty his griefs are a joy long afterwards to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured."
― Homer, The Odyssey

"Aries in his many fits knows no favorites."
― Homer, The Odyssey

"These nights are endless, and a human can sleep through them,
or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you take no need
to get to bed before it is fourth dimension. As well much sleep is only
a bore. And of the others, whatever one whose heart and spirit
urge him can get outside and sleep, and and then, when the dawn shows,
breakfast outset, then become out to tend the swine of our master.
But we two, sitting here in the shelter, eating and drinking,
shall entertain each other remembering and retelling
our sorry sorrows. For afterwards a man who has suffered
much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows."
― Homer, The Odyssey

"down from his forehead
she ran his curls
similar thick hyacinth clusters
full of blooms"
― Homer, The Odyssey

"Come up then, put away your sword in its sheath, and permit us 2 go upwards into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of honey, nosotros may so have religion and trust in each other."
― Homer, The Odyssey

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