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

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The Odyssey of Homer. Book vi. Line 22.

Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales,

And the good suffers while the bad prevails.

The Odyssey of Homer. Book vi. Line 229.

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent,

And what to those we give, to Jove is lent.

The Odyssey of Homer. Book vi. Line 247.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

The Odyssey of Homer. Book vii. Line 67.

To heal divisions, to relieve th' opprest;