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"The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul."
The Wife of Bath. Her Prologue. Line 298.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise."
The Wife of Bath. Her Prologue. Line 369.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come; Knock as you please, there 's nobody at home."
Epigram.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"For he lives twice who can at once employ The present well, and e'en the past enjoy."
Imitation of Martial.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Who dared to love their country, and be poor."
On his Grotto at Twickenham.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few."
Thoughts on Various Subjects.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian."
Thoughts on Various Subjects.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing!"
The Iliad of Homer. Book i. Line 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The distant Trojans never injur'd me."
The Iliad of Homer. Book i. Line 200.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Words sweet as honey from his lips distill'd."
The Iliad of Homer. Book i. Line 332.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod,-- The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god."
The Iliad of Homer. Book i. Line 684.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies."
The Iliad of Homer. Book i. Line 771.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Thick as autumnal leaves or driving sand."
The Iliad of Homer. Book ii. Line 970.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice,-- A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice."
The Iliad of Homer. Book iii. Line 199.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen."
The Iliad of Homer. Book iii. Line 208.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Ajax the great . . . Himself a host."
The Iliad of Homer. Book iii. Line 293.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Plough the watery deep."
The Iliad of Homer. Book iii. Line 357.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The day shall come, that great avenging day Which Troy's proud glories in the dust shall lay, When Priam's powers and Priam's self shall fall, And one prodigious ruin swallow all."
The Iliad of Homer. Book iv. Line 196.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"First in the fight and every graceful deed."
The Iliad of Homer. Book iv. Line 295.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The first in banquets, but the last in fight."
The Iliad of Homer. Book iv. Line 401.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Gods! How the son degenerates from the sire!"
The Iliad of Homer. Book iv. Line 451.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"With all its beauteous honours on its head."
The Iliad of Homer. Book iv. Line 557.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A wealthy priest, but rich without a fault."
The Iliad of Homer. Book v. Line 16.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,-- Such men as live in these degenerate days."
The Iliad of Homer. Book v. Line 371.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Whose little body lodg'd a mighty mind."
The Iliad of Homer. Book v. Line 999.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He held his seat,--a friend to human race."
The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 18.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,-- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise."
The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 181.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Inflaming wine, pernicious to mankind."
The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 330.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"If yet not lost to all the sense of shame."
The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 350.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"'T is man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success."
The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 427.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The young Astyanax, the hope of Troy."
The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 467.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all, in thee."
The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 544.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Andromache! my soul's far better part."
The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 624.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He from whose lips divine persuasion flows."
The Iliad of Homer. Book vii. Line 143.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend; And each brave foe was in his soul a friend."
The Iliad of Homer. Book vii. Line 364.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I war not with the dead."
The Iliad of Homer. Book vii. Line 485.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn."
The Iliad of Homer. Book viii. Line 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"As full-blown poppies, overcharg'd with rain, Decline the head, and drooping kiss the plain,-- So sinks the youth; his beauteous head, deprest Beneath his helmet, drops upon his breast."
The Iliad of Homer. Book viii. Line 371.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell."
The Iliad of Homer. Book ix. Line 412.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold: Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, Can bribe the poor possession of a day."
The Iliad of Homer. Book ix. Line 524.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Short is my date, but deathless my renown."
The Iliad of Homer. Book ix. Line 535.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Injustice, swift, erect, and unconfin'd, Sweeps the wide earth, and tramples o'er mankind."
The Iliad of Homer. Book ix. Line 628.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows."
The Iliad of Homer. Book ix. Line 725.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe."
The Iliad of Homer. Book x. Line 78.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Content to follow when we lead the way."
The Iliad of Homer. Book x. Line 141.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He serves me most who serves his country best."
The Iliad of Homer. Book x. Line 201.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know."
The Iliad of Homer. Book x. Line 293.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The rest were vulgar deaths, unknown to fame."
The Iliad of Homer. Book xi. Line 394.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause."
The Iliad of Homer. Book xii. Line 283.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The life which others pay let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe."
The Iliad of Homer. Book xii. Line 393.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain