| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| | | Hesiod. (fl. 8th cent.? B.C.) (continued) |
| | | 8429 | | From whose eyelids also as they gazed dropped love. 1 |
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| 8430 | | Both potter is jealous of potter and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet. 2 |
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| 8431 | | Fools! they know not how much half exceeds the whole. 3 |
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| 8432 | | For full indeed is earth of woes, and full the sea; and in the day as well as night diseases unbidden haunt mankind, silently bearing ills to men, for all-wise Zeus hath taken from them their voice. So utterly impossible is it to escape the will of Zeus. |
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| 8433 | | They died, as if o’ercome by sleep. |
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| 8434 | | Oft hath even a whole city reaped the evil fruit of a bad man. 4 |
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| 8435 | | For himself doth a man work evil in working evils for another. |
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| 8436 | | Badness, look you, you may choose easily in a heap: level is the path, and right near it dwells. But before Virtue the immortal gods have put the sweat of man’s brow; and long and steep is the way to it, and rugged at the first. |
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| 8437 | | This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end. |
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| 8438 | | Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season. |
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