“Your great deeds are unparallelled, your magnificence is praised! Young woman, Inana, your praise is sweet!”

The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)

Theology and Mysticism

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 609 (tr. Fagles); Aeneas to Dido.

1920s, The Progress of a People (1924)
Context: We are not all permitted the privilege of a university training. We can not all enter the professions. What is the great need of American citizenship? To my mind it is this, that each should take up the burden where he is. 'Do the day's work', I have said, and it should be done in the remembrance that all work is dignified. Your race is entitled to great praise for the contribution it makes in doing the work of the world.

Dive Into Mark http://web.archive.org/web/20110608004332/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/08/01/lolwreck, Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Hiero, ch. 3, as translated by Richard Graves in The Whole Works of Xenophon (1832) p. 626).

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

Lebe mit deinem Jahrhundert, aber sei nicht sein Geschöpf; leiste deinen Zeitgenossen, aber was sie bedürfen, nicht was sie loben.
Letter 9
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)