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1 " Twice or thrice had I lov'd thee, Before I knew thy face or name "
― John Donne , The Love Poems
2 " Some biblical scholars believe that the story of the fall from the Garden of Eden was a cultural memory of the transition from foraging to agriculture: “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.” 79 So why did our foraging ancestors leave Eden? For many, it was never an explicit choice: they had multiplied themselves into a Malthusian trap in which the fat of the land could no longer support them, and they had to grow their food themselves. The states emerged only later, and the foragers who lived at their frontiers could either be absorbed into them or hold out in their old way of life. For those who had the choice, Eden may have been just too dangerous. A few cavities, the odd abscess, and a couple of inches in height were a small price to pay for a fivefold better chance of not getting speared "
― Steven Pinker , The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
3 " Jesus the very thought of TheeWith sweetness fills my breast;But sweeter far Thy face to see,And in Thy presence rest. "
― Bernard of Clairvaux
4 " Go, prick thy face and over-red thy fear,Thou lily-livered boy. "
― William Shakespeare , Macbeth
5 " In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. "
