Ovid Quotes About Earth
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There is a god within us, and the heavens Have intercourse with earth; from realms above That spirit comes.
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The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.
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Who gives to Aristaeus honey; Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?
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All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.
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Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.
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The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]
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By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.
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When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.
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