JOY in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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1 He kissed his head and both his beautiful eyes, and wept for joy.
2 Then Penelope sprang up from her couch, threw her arms round Euryclea, and wept for joy.
3 When she had conducted them to their room she went back, and they then came joyfully to the rites of their own old bed.
4 As soon as the men saw each other face to face and knew one another, they wept for joy and cried aloud till the whole palace rang again.
5 Her aged knees became young again and her feet were nimble for joy as she went up to her mistress and bent over her head to speak to her.
6 By and by, however, it seemed as though he was to return safely after all, for the gods backed the wind into its old quarter and they reached home; whereon Agamemnon kissed his native soil, and shed tears of joy at finding himself in his own country.
7 When she saw all the corpses and such a quantity of blood, she was beginning to cry out for joy, for she saw that a great deed had been done; but Ulysses checked her, "Old woman," said he, "rejoice in silence; restrain yourself, and do not make any noise about it; it is an unholy thing to vaunt over dead men."