Quotes 61 till 80 of 126.
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It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
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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.
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Later, when we were forced to accept the fact that finding gold was really the primary object of a gold-mining company, we still remained there
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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
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Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. IX, Commodities, Gold, Credit as Money, p. 100 -
Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
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My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
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My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.
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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
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O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapor.
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Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
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On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.
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Our government works should be treated fairly and appropriately; they should have a decent retirement, but not a gold-plated system where they can retire multimillionaires in their 50s.
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Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
Plays wasted words, proves to warn
That he not busy being born is busy dying.Bringing It All Back Home (1965) -
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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