Homer Quotes
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To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don't have to do squat!
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The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.
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I've finally tapped into that spirit of self-destruction that makes rock-n-roll the king of music!
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Trying is the first step toward failure.
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Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.
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I guess some people never change... Or, they quickly change and then quickly change back.
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To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea.
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Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.
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The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.
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Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.
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It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
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Men are so 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.
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I long for home, long for the sight of home.
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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
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The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
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Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man.
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What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides?
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All men have need of the gods.
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Steel itself oft lures a man to fight.
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Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
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Too many kings can ruin an army
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His native home deep imag'd in his soul.
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...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep.
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Money can be exchanged for goods and services!
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Come 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.
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Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.
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Sleep and Death, who are twin brothers.
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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.
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In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.
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For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.
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