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Homer quotes about time

Greek Poet

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And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved. Homer
These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no needto go to bed before it is time. Too much sleep is onlya bore. And of the others, any one whose heart and spiriturge him can go outside and sleep, and then, when the dawn shows, breakfast first, then go 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 retellingour sad sorrows. For... Homer
But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be one./ Time was, when you were alive, we Argives/ honored you as a god, and now down here, I see/ You Lord it over the dead in all your power./ So grieve no more at dying, great Achilles.’ I reassured the ghost, but he broke out protesting,/ ‘No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus!/ By god, I’d rather slave on earth for another man--/ Some dirt-poor tenant farmer who... Homer
Homer quote: "A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled..."
A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time Homer
Homer quote: "Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's..."
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe. Homer
No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born. Homer
Homer quote: "There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for..."
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. Homer

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