A Quote by Torquato Tasso
The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
[Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte,
Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]
A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.
Each day of my life I am sowing seeds that one day I will harvest.
When we are busy at work and busy at home, an hour's walking every day becomes a real luxury. If done alone, the walk injects a period of meditation into the day, and if done in company, it allows space for some really good conversation.
Every single day since Day 1, to Day 2, to Day 3, to Day 4, to Day 5, to Day 6, to Day 7 to Day 8, whatever day it is now, I've gotten better.
Yet just as the day has two halves, one governed by the sun and the other by the moon, so there are many who are people of the day and who busy themselves with daytime deeds, whilst others are children of the night, their minds consumed with nocturnal notions; but yet there are some in whom the two merge like the rising of the sun and the moon in a day.
Day after day we must remember we can take freedom for granted. Day after day we must keep the bond between freedom and other values in mind.
Her hair that lay along her back
Was yellow like ripe corn.
One day I'm not busy at all; the next day I have work for months - that's kind of the way it works!
Day-to-day life is as simple as it is routine - though my days are often long and very busy.
We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
What fits your busy schedule better, exercising one hour a day or being dead 24 hours a day?
As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.
This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.
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