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Homer Quotes about Heart

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Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

Inspirational, Learning, Heart

Homer (2008). “The Odyssey: Easyread Large Edition”, p.146, ReadHowYouWant.com

Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.

Heart, Funeral, Suffering

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

Heart, Literature, Hateful

Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.234

The hearts of the great can be changed.

Heart, Changed, Flexibility

Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.336, University of Chicago Press

A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.

Heart, Tongue, Slander

Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.380

You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!

Running, War, Heart

Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire.

Prayer, Heart, Men

Homer (2013). “The Homer Anthology”, p.1704, eBookIt.com

Have patience, heart.

Heart, Having Patience

Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.

Strong, Heart, Sight

Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms.

Grief, Heart, Giving

Homer, Stanley Lombardo (1819). “Iliad”, p.443, Hackett Publishing

Wine give strenght to weary men. and And wine can of their wits the wise beguile. Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. and Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, Dry up in law; the muses smell of wine. and No poem was ever written by a drinker of water. and Bacchus opens the gate of the heart. and Might to inspire new hopes and powerful To drown the bitterness of cares.

Wise, Powerful, Heart

The skin of the coward changes color all the time, he can't get a grip on himself, he can't sit still, he squats and rocks, shifting his weight from foot to foot, his heart racing, pounding inside the fellow's ribs, his teeth chattering. He dreads some grisly death. But the skin of a brave soldier never blanches. He's all control. Tense but no great fear.

Fear, Heart, Rocks

I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.

Heart, Men, Mind

Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.402, University of Chicago Press

These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no need to go to bed before it is time. Too much sleep is only a bore. And of the others, any one whose heart and spirit urge 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 retelling our sad sorrows. For afterwards a man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.

Drinking, Heart, Sleep

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

Life, Success, Heart

Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.224, University of Chicago Press

There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder.

Husband, Heart, Deeds

O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes

Sports, Strong, Heart

Homer (1901). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.160

The hearts of great men can be changed.

Heart, Men, Great Men

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