Then Gandhamadan thus replied With lips that toil and thirst had dried; "Obey his words, for wise and true Is all that he has counselled you. Come, let your hosts their toil renew And search each grove and desert through, Each towering hill and forest glade. By lake and brook and white cascade, Till every spot, as our great lord Commanded, be again explored."Ramayana 4.229 · Ramayana · 4
Ramayana 4.229
Ramayana · translated by Ralph T.H. Griffith
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Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.Psalms 104:23 · Bible · Psalms
Toil cometh not unto them there, nor will they be expelled from thence.Quran 15:48 · Quran · The Rock
A field deep furrow’d next the god design’d,[256] The third time labour’d by the sweating hind; The shining shares full many ploughmen guide, And turn their crooked yokes on every side. Still as at either end they wheel around, The master meets them with his goblet crown’d; The hearty draught rewards, renews their toil, Then back the turning ploughshares cleave the soil: Behind, the rising earth in ridges roll’d; And sable look’d, though form’d of molten gold.Iliad 18.43 · Iliad · 18
A Bhikshu who, though he receives little, does not despise what he has received, even the gods will praise him, if his life is pure, and if he is not slothful.Dhp 25.366 · Dhammapada · The Bhikshu (Mendicant)
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