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Homer Quotes: Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.
         

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.


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There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.



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After the event, even a fool is wise.



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You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.



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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.



Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.



Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.



The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.

The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.





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