Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Gold

• Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Kindness, Gold, Wages

• The early morning has gold in its mouth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Good Morning, Up Early, Rising In The Morning

  "Why fiddle with our clocks? This ritual persecution of the sleepless must end" by Simon Jenkins, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.

• A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Country, Gold

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Gold, Might

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.73, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Gold, Able

  Nancy Spannaus, Christopher White, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas More, Henry VIII (2015). “The Political Economy of the American Revolution”, p.255, Executive Intelligence Review

• What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Gold, Virtue, Diamond

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.200, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Gold, Stones, Turns

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.253

• The proof of gold is fire.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Adversity, Fire, Gold

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.21, Courier Corporation

• I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.24, Nayika Publishing

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