“Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.”

—  Brandon Mull

Source: Keys to the Demon Prison

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American fiction writer 1974

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Fragment 67, as translated by R. Lattimore http://www.rhapsodes.fll.vt.edu/arkhilokhos67.htm
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"Archilochos: To His Soul" : A fragment http://web.archive.org/20030629194753/geocities.com/joncpoetics/translations/Archsoul.htm as translated from the Greek by Jon Corelis http://web.archive.org/20030805055937/www.geocities.com/joncpoetics/
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"Archilochos: To His Soul" : A fragment, as translated from the Greek by Jon Corelis
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Context: Heart, my heart, so battered with misfortune far beyond your strength,
up, and face the men who hate us. Bare your chest to the assault
of the enemy, and fight them off. Stand fast among the beamlike spears.
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nor, if they beat you, run home and lie down on your bed and cry.
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Maxim 227.
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