Gold Quotes - Page 26

• The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Men, Soul, Poverty

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers: A sea turn, and other papers”

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• Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements.

  Sylvia Plath

  Watches, Elements, Birth

  'Morning Song' (1965)

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• We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Art, Women, Ignorance

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.31

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• The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant drinking, the incessant squabbling over money, the all-pervasive agent, the strutting of the big shots (and their usually utter incompetence to achieve anything they start out to do), the constant fear of losing all this fairy gold and being the nothing they have never ceased to be, the snide tricks, the whole damn mess is out of this world.

  Raymond Chandler

  Drinking, Boys, Community

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.64, Grove Press

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• The testing of good and bad is in order that the gold may boil and bring the scum to the top.

  Rumi

  Adversity, Order, Scum

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• Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.

  Francis Quarles

  Men, Treasure

  Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridon: containing institutions divine, moral”, p.76

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• I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold

  Isaac Watts

  Rich, Peru, Native

  Isaac Watts (1855). “Dr. Watts's Divine and Moral Songs, etc”, p.4

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• Life can be difficult for kids born with a gold spoon in their mouth, because they never really get to find out if they're able to work hard and make it on their own.

  Lee Iacocca

  Hard Work, Kids, Effort

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• This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence?

  Mary McCarthy

  Intelligent, Idols, Feet

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• Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America.

  Florence King

  Christian, Kings, Cheer

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.33, Macmillan

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• The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.

  V. S. Naipaul

  People, Done, Slave

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “A Bend in the River”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• Lawyers love paper. They eat, sleep and dream paper. They turn paper into gold, and their files are colorful and their language neoclassical and calli-graphically bewigged.

  Karl Shapiro

  Dream, Sleep, Paper

  Karl Jay Shapiro, Richard O'Barry (1990). “Poet: An Autobiography in Three Parts”

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• By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

  Propertius

  Rights, Law, Ends

  "Elegies, III". Book by Sextus Propertius, c. 24 B.C.

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• So shall I fight, so shall I tread,
  In this long war beneath the stars;
  So shall a glory wreathe my head,
  So shall I faint and show the scars,
  Until this case, this clogging mould,
  Be smithied all to kingly gold.

  John Masefield

  Stars, War, Struggle

  John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”

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• Just as gold tarnished in depth (cf. Jms. 5:3) cannot be properly purified and restored to its proper brightness unless it is cast in the fire and thoroughly hammered with mallets, so when the soul has been tarnished with the rust of sin and become thoroughly useless it cannot be cleansed and recover its original beauty unless it meets many trials and enter into the furnace of tribulations.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Fire, Cfs

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• Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Self, Phoenix

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.74, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Never will I pray for the material things of the world. I am not calling to a servant to bring me food. I am not ordering an innkeeper to provide me with room. Never will I seek delivery of gold, love, good health, petty victories, fame, success, or happiness. Only for guidance will I pray, that I may be shown the way to acquire these things, and my prayer will always be answered.

  Og Mandino

  Prayer, Victory, May

  Og Mandino (1998). “The Greatest Gift in the World”, Frederick Fell Publishers

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• There is no real wealth but the labour of man. Were the mountains of gold and the valleys of silver, the world would not be one grain of corn the richer; no one comfort would be added to the human race.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Real, Work, Race

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• America is a country where the Olympics and the divorce lawyers both have the same slogan - Go for the Gold.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Country, Humorous

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• Unlike the days of the gold standard, it is impossible for the Federal Reserve to go bankrupt; it holds the legal monopoly of counterfeiting (of creating money out of thin air) in the entire country.

  Murray Rothbard

  Country, Money, Air

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• I want to make it clear what I am not saying. I am not saying that fiat money, once established on the ruins of gold, cannot then continue indefinitely on its own.

  Murray Rothbard

  Money, Want, Ruins

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• True love in this differs from gold and clay, that to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, gazing on many truths.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Understanding, Clay

  1821 'Epipsychidion', l.160-1.

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• But nothing ever put 'Hoppy' in the shade. No one could fail to recognize in the little figure... the authentic gold of intellectual inspiration, the Fundator et Primus Abbas of biochemistry in England.

  Joseph Needham

  Inspiration, Science, Intellectual

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• I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away.

  James Taylor

  Sadness, Sorrow

  Song: Golden Moments, Album: In The Pocket

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• If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold, I'd have all the treasures my pockets could hold.

  Dolly Parton

  Sadness, Heartache, Pockets

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