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Occupations-Agriculture: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
Ye rigid Ploughmen! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your powers!— RICHARD HENGIST HORNE — The Plough.
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.— DOUGLAS JERROLD — A Land of Plenty.
(Australia.) The life of the husbandman, -a life fed by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven. C.— DOUGLAS JERROLD — Jerrold's Wit. The
Husbandman's Life. And the maize-field grew and ripened, Till it stood in all the splendor Of its garments green and yellow. LONGFELLOWw-Hiawatha. Pt. XIII. L. 175. Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. IX. L. 205.
Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. VIII. L. 306.
Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.— POPE — Windsor Forest. L. 39.
Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulg'd the day that hous'd their annual grain, With feasts, and off rings, and a thankfulstrain.— POPE — Second Book of Horace. Ep. I. L. 241.
When weary reapers quit the sultry field, And, crown'd with corn, their thanks to Ceres yield.— POPE — Summer. L. 65.
Where grows?-where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 13.
In ancient times, the sacred Plough employ'd The Kings and awful Fathers of mankind : And some, with whom compared your insecttribes Are but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the Scale of Empire, ruled the Storm Of mighty War; then, with victorious hand, Disdaining little delicacies, seized The Plough, and, greatly independent, scorned All the vile stores corruption can bestow.— THOMSON — The Seasons. Spring. L. 58.