Homer Quotes About Fighting
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Steel itself oft lures a man to fight.
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Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back! Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierce as the day we ripped Troy's glittering crown of towers down. Stand by me - furious now as then, my bright-eyed one - and I would fight three hundred men, great goddess, with you to brace me, comrade-in-arms in battle!
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It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
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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
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The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.
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Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound, while pulling the feet of one more corpse out from the fight. The clothes Death wore around her shoulders were dyed red with human blood.
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Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.
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Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.
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It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.
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Shoulder-to-shoulder, swing to the work, we must - just two as we are - if we hope to make some headway. The worst cowards, banded together, have their power, but you and I have got the skill to fight their best.
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The single best augury is to fight for one's country.
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It's man's to fight, but heaven's to give success.
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Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power
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To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.
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One omen is best, to fight in defense of one's country.
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