Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this. Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.
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The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.
Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I__e never led an army, I am a wanderer. I cradle 'The Odyssey' nights while the moon is waning, as if it were the sweet body of a woman.
Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer__ 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.
They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army, I am a wanderer. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer__ 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.
I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, I__ seen hundreds of full moons in my life, but they were not limitless. When one starts thinking of the full moon as a common sight that will come again to one__ eyes ad-infinitum, the value of life is diminished and life goes by uncherished. __his may be my last moon,_ I sighed, feeling a sudden sweep of sorrow; and went back to reading more of The Odyssey.
Question me now about all other matters, but do not ask who I am, for fear you may increase in my heart it's burden of sorrow as I think back; I am very full of grief, and I should not sit in the house of somebody else with my lamentation and wailing. It is not good to go on mourning forever.
The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy our youth, and then come to the threshold of old age.