The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.
("The Iliad")
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All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.
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Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.
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