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His native home deep imag'd in his soul.

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There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind.

Iliad (-750)

Think not to match yourself against gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.

Iliad (-750)

Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell.

Iliad (-750)

There is the heat of Love,
the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover's whisper,
irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.

Iliad (-750)

A glorious death is his
Who for his country falls.

Iliad (-750)

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There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a Home.

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A man's house is his castle — et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium.

Edward Coke Institutes of the Laws of England (1628)

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