Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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The Iliad of Homer. Book xiii. Line 106.

The best of things beyond their measure cloy.

The Iliad of Homer. Book xiii. Line 795.

To hide their ignominious heads in Troy.

The Iliad of Homer. Book xiv. Line 170.

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs,

Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes.

The Iliad of Homer. Book xiv. Line 251.

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Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall.