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“Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own”
Samuel Johnson Quotes |
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“Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it’s liberty and interests by the most lasting bands”
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“With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.”
Bertrand Russell Quotes |
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“Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age”
Alfred Bernhard Nobel Quotes |
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“Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage.”
Indian Proverb Quotes |
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“"Ten acres and a mule."”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: American phrase indicating the expectations of emancipated slaves
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“Three acres and a cow.”
Jeremy Bentham Quotes Source: Works (vol. III, p. 448)
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“Look up! the wide extended plain
Is billowy with its ripened grain,
And on the summer winds are rolled
Its waves of emerald and gold.”
William Henry Burleigh Quotes Source: The Harvest Call (st. 5)
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“The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never
see the fruit.
[Lat., Abores serit diligens agricola, quarum adspiciet baccam
ipse numquam.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 14)
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“He allows very readily, that the eyes and footsteps of the master
are things most salutary to the land.
[Lat., Oculos et vestiga domini, res agro saluberrimas, facilius
admittit.]”
Lucinus Junius Moderatus Columella Quotes Source: De Re Rustica (IV, 18)
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“The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility
rests on possession and use of land.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Society and Solitude--Farming
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“Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield:
Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke:
How jocund did they drive their team a-field!
How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!”
Thomas Gray Quotes Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard (st. 7)
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“Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of
mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers,
free from all anxieties of gain.
[Lat., Beatus ille qui procul negotiis,
Ut prisca gens mortalium,
Paterna rura bobus exercet suis,
Solutus omni faenore.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Epodon (bk. II, 1)
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“Ye rigid Ploughman! 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 Quotes Source: The Plough
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“The life of the husbandman,--a life led by the bounty of earth
and sweetened by the airs of heaven.”
Douglas Jerrold Quotes Source: Jerrold's Wit--The Husbandman's Life
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“Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she
laughs with a harvest.”
Douglas Jerrold Quotes Source: A Land of Plenty
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“He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.
[Lat., Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum.]”
Douglas Jerrold Quotes Source: A Land of Plenty
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“When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses
are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.”
John Stuart Mill Quotes Source: Principles of Political Economy (bk. II, ch. VI, sec, V)
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“Adam, well may we labour, still to dress
This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 205)
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“A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.
[Lat., Continua messe senescit ager.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes Source: Are Amatoria (III, 82)
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“Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best
fertilizer.
[Lat., Majores fertilissium is agro oculum domini esse dixerunt.]”
Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus) Quotes Source: Historia Naturalis (XVIII, 84)
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“Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil,
We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 13)
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“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 thankful strain.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Second Book of Horace (ep. I, l. 241)
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“Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand,
And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Windsor Forest (l. 39)
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“And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears
of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground
where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and
do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of
politicians put together."”
Jonathan Swift Quotes Source: Gulliver's Travels--Voyage to Brobdingnag (pt. II, ch. CII)
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