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“No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.”

Knows Has Beens Done Whole Earth Humanity Born Race Blood Hero Died Deeds Mischief Precision

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.”

Knows Men Earth Order Hurt Secret He Man Harmony Fellows Environmental Deeds Immortal Admiration Contemplating Unjust Ageless

Author:Euripides

“So long as men shall be on earth, there will be tasks for them to do. Some way for them to show their worth. Each day shall bring its problems new. And men shall dream of mightier deeds than ever have been done before. There always shall be human needs for men to work and struggle for.”

Men Way Needs Humans Long Has Beens Done Shows Problem Dream Earth Struggle Tasks Deeds Each Day Human Needs

Author:Edgar Guest

“For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds of hate should follow till the earth his life immure. Nor when he dies can he boast of being truly free.”

Men Should Earth Lasts Hate Dies Fate Failing Tasks Deeds Boast Spun

Book:The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes

Source: The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes

“All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.”

Men Earth Fit Fame Empty Praise Blind Fruit Rewards Painful Seeking Deeds Superstitions Zeal Retribution

Author:Don DeLillo

“Is there no reconciliation of some ancient quarrel, no payment of some long outstanding debt, no courtesy or love or honor to be rendered to those to whom it has long been due; no charitable, humble, kind, useful deed, by which you can promote the glory of God, or good-will among men, or peace upon earth? If there be any such, I beseech you, in God's name, in Christ's name, go and do it.”

Ifs Men Kind Long Earth Names Christ Duty Honor Glory Ancient Deeds Humble Debt Dues Quarrels Courtesy Reconciliation Payment Good Will Outstanding Glory Of God Charitable

Author:Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

“Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself...As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called 'I'; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.”

“Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.”

Men Eye Earth Crime Deeds Suspicion Foul

Author:William Shakespeare