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Homer43 quotes
All men have need of the Gods. — Homer · 700 BCZeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment. — Homer · 700 BCAmong all men on Earth, bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the Muse has taught them songs, and loves the race of bards. — Homer · 700 BCOf all the creatures that breathe and move across the earth, there is nothing feebler than man. — Homer · 700 BCI should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead. — Homer · 700 BCBad herdsmen ruin their flocks. — Homer · 700 BCAll 43 quotes →John Milton24 quotes
Long is the way
And hard, that out of Hell leads up to Light. — John Milton · 1667O fairest of Creation, last and best
Of all God's works. — John Milton · 1667Her rash hand in evil hour
Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate:
Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat
Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe
That all was lost. — John Milton · 1667Of Man's First Disobedience, and the fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing, Heav'nly Muse. — John Milton · 1667What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support;
That to the height of this great Argument
I may assert Eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men. — John Milton · 1667Who overcomes
By force hath overcome but half his foe. — John Milton · 1667All 24 quotes →Dante Alighieri21 quotes
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Consider your origin;
you were not born to live like brutes,
but to follow virtue and knowledge. — Dante Alighieri · 1321When I had journeyed half of our life's way,
I found myself within a shadowed forest,
for I had lost the path that does not stray. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Haste denies all acts their dignity. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Thence we came forth to see the stars again. — Dante Alighieri · 1321My course is set for an uncharted sea. — Dante Alighieri · 1321All 21 quotes →Virgil8 quotes
Fortune favors the brave. — Virgil · 19 BCA fickle and changeable thing always is woman. — Virgil · 19 BCNight came down, and enfolded the earth in her dusky wings. — Virgil · 19 BCDo not trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts. — Virgil · 19 BCHer walk revealed her as a true goddess. — Virgil · 19 BCTo what do you not drive human hearts, cursed craving for gold! — Virgil · 19 BCAll 8 quotes →Carl Sandburg2 quotes
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. — Carl Sandburg · 1936The people will live on.
The learning and blundering people will live on.
They will be tricked and sold and again sold
And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds. — Carl Sandburg · 1936Edmund Spenser2 quotes
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas,
Ease after war, death after life, does greatly please. — Edmund Spenser · 1590The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known. For a man by nothing is so well exposed, as by his manners. — Edmund Spenser · 1596