Homer Quotes About Wine
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Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength.
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Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those.
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Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.
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Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile
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Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind.
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She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills
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[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.
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Over the wine-dark sea.
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Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.
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Wine gives strength to weary men.
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The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
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Wine give strenght to weary men. and And wine can of their wits the wise beguile. Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. and Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, Dry up in law; the muses smell of wine. and No poem was ever written by a drinker of water. and Bacchus opens the gate of the heart. and Might to inspire new hopes and powerful To drown the bitterness of cares.
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