Ancient Quote by Horace

He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by…

— Horace

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from…

— Horace

“How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his only skill!…

— Sir Henry Wotton

But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others…

— Anonymous

But as it falleth, in the gentlest hearts Imperious love hath highest set his throne, And tyrannizeth in the bitter smarts Of them, that…

— Edmund Spenser

He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.

— John Bunyan

How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labors,…

— Anonymous

He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.

— Plautus

Oh! how happy the man of means who uses his wealth and his life for the greater glory of God, from whom he has…

— Vincent de Paul

Praise Him, each savage furious beast That on His stores do daily feast; And you tame slaves, of the laborious plough, Your weary knees…

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

He that slayeth an ox is as he that killeth a human.

— Isaiah

He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.

— Thomas Fuller