Wise to resolve, and patient to perform. Homer More Quotes by Homer More Quotes From Homer Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest. Homer distinguished 'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth. Homer birth soul giving Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace. Homer grace power love As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man. Homer tree men life To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe. Homer woe men life Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return. Homer rich return fame A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities. Homer responsibility leadership sleep But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend. Homer soul race friendship To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight. Homer fighting war peace Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world. Homer toil war world We all scribble poetry. Homer scribbles poetry There is no greater glory that can befall a man that what he achieves with the speed of his feet or the strength of his hands. Homer feet men hands Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors? Homer conqueror games history 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. Homer thoughtful wine men She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills Homer passion grief drinking The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with leaves again in the spring. Homer spring tree wind Achilles absent was Achilles still! Homer absent-mindedness achilles absence Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with a green Enclosure all around. Tall thriving Trees confessed the fruitful Mold: The reddening Apple ripens here to Gold, Here the blue Fig with luscious Juice overflows, With deeper Red the full Pomegranate glows, The Branch here bends beneath the weighty Pear, And verdant Olives flourish round the Year. Homer garden blue lying To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea. Homer morrow tomorrow sea Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar. Homer salt ignorance heard
