| 103 Famous Quotes by Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
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“By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent,
And what to those we give, to Jove is lent.”
Philanthropy Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. VI, l. 247), (Pope's translation)
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“It never was our guise
To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.”
Philanthropy Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. XIV, l. 65), (Pope's translation)
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“In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight,
And poverty stood smiling in my sight.”
Philanthropy Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. XVII, l. 505), (Pope's translation)
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“And taste
The melancholy joys of evils pass'd,
For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.”
Suffering Quotes Source: The Odyssesy (bk. XV, l. 434), (Pope's translation)
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“Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.”
Gods Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. I, l. 280), (Bryant's translation)
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“The son of Saturn gave
The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls
Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head
Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount,
Olympus trembled.”
Gods Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. I, l. 666), (Bryant's translation)
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“Shakes his ambroisal curls, and gives the nod,
The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god.”
Gods Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. I, l. 684), (Pope's translation)
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“The ox-eyes awful Juno.”
Gods Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. III, l. 144)
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“Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods.”
Gods Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. XVII, 514)
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“Rare gift! but oh, what gift to fools avails!”
Gifts Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. 10, l. 29), (Pope's translation)
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“To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd,
In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd.”
Blessings Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. VII, l. 95), (Pope's translation)
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“Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.”
Strength Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. XV, l. 853), (Pope's translation)
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“A mass enormous! which, in modern days
No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise.”
Strength Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. XX, l. 338), (Pope's translation)
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“Strong are her sons, though rocky are her shores.”
Strength Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. IX, l. 28), (Pope's translation)
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“Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light,
And drew behind the cloudy vale of night.”
Night Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. VIII, l. 605), (Pope's translation)
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“Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts.”
Apparitions Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 48), (Pope's translation)
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“O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong,
And let no warrior in the heat of fight
Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes;
For more of those who shrink from shame are safe
Than fall in battle, while with those who flee
Is neither glory nor reprieve from death.”
Courage Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. V, l. 663), (Bryant's translation)
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“Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed
The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.”
Heaven Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. VIII, l. 128), (Pope's translation)
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“The first in glory, as the first in place.”
Glory Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 441), (Pope's translation)
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“He ceased: but left so charming on their ear
His voice, that listening still they seemed to hear.”
Voice Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. II, l. 414), (Pope's translation)
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“And better skilled in dark events to come.”
Future Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. V, 219), (Pope's translation)
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“He is a fool
Who only sees the mischiefs that are past.”
Folly Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. XVII, l. 39), Bryant's translation
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“(Orion) A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.”
Shadows Quotes Source: The Odyssey (II, 572)
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“Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell.”
Lying Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. IX, l. 412), (Pope's translation)
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“Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies;
And sure he will; for wisdom never lies.”
Lying Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. III, l. 25), (Pope's translation)
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Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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