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

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With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

The Odyssey of Homer. Book ii. Line 207.

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

The Odyssey of Homer. Book ii. Line 312.

Few sons attain the praise

Of their great sires, and most their sires disgrace.

The Odyssey of Homer. Book ii. Line 315.

For never, never, wicked man was wise.

The Odyssey of Homer. Book ii. Line 320.

Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies;