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Whose little body lodg'd a mighty mind.

The Iliad of Homer. Book v. Line 999. He held his seat, a friend to human race.

Book vi. Line 18.

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,
Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; 1
Another race the following spring supplies:
They fall successive, and successive rise.

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Inflaming wine, pernicious to mankind.

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If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.

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"T is man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success.

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The young Astyanax, the hope of Troy.

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Yet while my Hector still survives, I see
My father, mother, brethren, all, in thee.
Andromache! my soul's far better part.
He from whose lips divine persuasion flows.

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Book vii. Line 143.

Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend;
And each brave foe was in his soul a friend.
I war not with the dead.

Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn,
Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.

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Book viii. Line 1.

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.
Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell.2

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Book ix. Line 412.

1 As of the green leaves on a thick tree, some fall, and some grow. Ecclesiasticus xiv. 18.

2 The same line, with "soul" for "heart," occurs in the translation of the Odyssey, book xiv. line 181.

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.

Short is my date, but deathless my renown.

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Injustice, swift, erect, and unconfin'd,
Sweeps the wide earth, and tramples o'er mankind.

A generous friendship no cold medium knows,
Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

To labour is the lot of man below;
And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.

Content to follow when we lead the way.

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Book x. Line 78.

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He serves me most who serves his country best.1 Line 201.

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe,
Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
The rest were vulgar deaths, unknown to fame.

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Book xi. Line 394.

Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,
And asks no omen but his country's cause.

Book xii. Line 283.

The life which others pay let us bestow,
And give to fame what we to nature owe.
And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.

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The best of things beyond their measure cloy.
To hide their ignominious heads in Troy.

Book riv. Line 170.

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs,
Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes.

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1 He serves his party best who serves the country best. - RUTHERFORD B. HAYES: Inaugural Address, March 5, 1877.

Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xv. Line 157.

And for our country 't is a bliss to die.
Like strength is felt from hope and from despair.

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspir'd.1

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Book xvi. Line 267.

Dispel this cloud, the light of Heaven restore;

Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more. Book xvii. Line 730.

The mildest manners, and the gentlest heart.

In death a hero, as in life a friend!

Patroclus, lov'd of all my martial train,
Beyond mankind, beyond myself, is slain!

I live an idle burden to the ground.

Ah, youth! forever dear, forever kind.

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Book xix. Line 303.

Accept these grateful tears! for thee they flow, -
For thee, that ever felt another's woe!

Where'er he mov'd, the goddess shone before.

The matchless Ganymed, divinely fair.2

"T is fortune gives us birth,

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But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

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Our business in the field of fight
Is not to question, but to prove our might.

1 A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies. On Aristotle.

2 Divinely fair.

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DIOGENES LAERTIUS:

Two souls with but a single thought,

Two hearts that beat as one.

BELLINGHAUSEN: Ingomar the Barbarian, act ii.

- TENNYSON: A Dream of Fair Women, xxii.

A mass enormous! which in modern days
No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise.1
The Iliad of Homer. Book xx. Line 337.

The bitter dregs of fortune's cup to drain.

Book xxii. Line 85.

Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.

This, this is misery! the last, the worst
That man can feel.

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No season now for calm familiar talk.

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Jove lifts the golden balances that show

The fates of mortal men, and things below.

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Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro

In all the raging impotence of woe.

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Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.

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'T is true, 't is certain; man though dead retains Part of himself: the immortal mind remains.

Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.

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It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize,3
And to be swift is less than to be wise.

"T is more by art than force of num'rous strokes.

4

A green old age, unconscious of decays,

That proves the hero born in better days.

1 See page 337.

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2 Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. - Scorr: Lay of the Last Minstrel. Unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. — BYRON Childe Harold, canto

ir. stanza 179.

8 See Middleton, page 172.

4 See Dryden, page 276.

Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, –
The source of evil one, and one of good.

The Iliad of Homer. Book xxiv. Line 663. The mildest manners with the bravest mind.

Fly, dotard, fly!

With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

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The Odyssey of Homer. Book ii. Line 207.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dar'd.

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Few sons attain the praise

Of their great sires, and most their sires disgrace.

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For never, never, wicked man was wise.

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Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies;
And sure he will: for Wisdom never lies.

The lot of man, - to suffer and to die.

A faultless body and a blameless mind.
The long historian of my country's woes.

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Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above
With ease can save each object of his love;
Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.

When now Aurora, daughter of the dawn,
With rosy lustre purpled o'er the lawn.
These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!

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Mirror of constant faith, rever'd and mourn'd!
There with commutual zeal we both had strove
In acts of dear benevolence and love:
Brothers in peace, not rivals in command.

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The glory of a firm, capacious mind.

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Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

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The leader, mingling with the vulgar host,
Is in the common mass of matter lost.

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