| There is an old-time toast which is golden for its beauty. "When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend. -- Mark Twain |
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Twain, MarkEra:
1835 |
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| The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author:
Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra:
1803 |
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| Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. -- Adam Smith |
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Smith, AdamEra:
1723 |
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| The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold. -- Albert Pike |
| Author:
Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around. -- Oliver goldsmith |
| Author:
Goldsmith, OliverEra:
1728 |
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| It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet,than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble. -- Epicurus |
| Author:
EpicurusEra:
-341 |
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| A wise traveler never despises his own country. -- Carlo goldoni |
| Author:
Goldoni, CarloEra:
1707 |
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| The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Author:
Longfellow, Henry WadsworthEra:
1807 |
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| The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition. -- Oliver goldsmith |
| Author:
Goldsmith, OliverEra:
1728 |
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| Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold! -- Julia Ripley Dorr |
| Author:
Dorr, Julia RipleyEra:
1825 |
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| See! led by Morn, with dewy feet, Apollo mounts his golden seat, Replete with seven-fold fire; While, dazzled by his conquering light, Heaven's glittering host and awful night Submissively retire. -- Thomas Taylor |
| Author:
Taylor, ThomasEra:
1758 |
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| Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads. -- Nagarjuna |
| Author:
NagarjunaEra:
100 |
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| O gold! I still prefer thee unto paper which makes bank credit like a bank of vapour. -- George Gordon, Lord Byron |
| Author:
Byron, LordEra:
1788 |
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| Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power. -- Jean Paul Richter |
| Author:
Richter, Jean PaulEra:
1763 |
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| A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. -- Samuel goldwyn |
| Author:
Goldwyn, SamuelEra:
1882 |
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| Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray. -- Oliver goldsmith |
| Author:
Goldsmith, OliverEra:
1728 |
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| As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith. -- Koran |
| Author:
KoranEra:
651 |
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