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• Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

  John Donne

  Love, Cute, Anniversary

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Bait'

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• He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.

  Anita Diament

  Beautiful, Sunset

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• Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

  Horace Mann

  Life, Time, Sunset

  'Lost, Two Golden Hours'

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• We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

  Edwin Markham

  Inspirational, Life, Memories

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• The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Teaching, Learning, Eulogy

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903)

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• In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Running, Clouds, Race

  1820 'To a Skylark', stanza 3.

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• Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sunday, Together, Week

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 525), 1895.

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• All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Spring, Tree

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• Chance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn't stop.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Left Hanging, Goes On, Way

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Miles Between”, p.212, Macmillan

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• From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Compassion, Sea, Tears

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.190, Penguin

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• Perhaps. . .love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Beautiful, Perhaps Love, Rose

  "Anne of Avonlea". Book by Lucy Maud Montgomery, Ch. 30, 1909.

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• The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach.

  George Eliot

  Stars, Tree, Fruit

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2704, ShandonPress

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• Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.

  William Shakespeare

  Girl, Death, Dust

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 4, sc. 2, l. 258

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• Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

  George Washington Carver

  Education, Teacher, Freedom

  George Washington Carver, Gary R. Kremer (1991). “George Washington Carver: In His Own Words”, p.62, University of Missouri Press

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• Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

  Max Beerbohm

  People, Weight, Balls

  "The Comparable Max" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. August 3, 2015.

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• There are no golden geese. There are only fat geese eating the food that could nourish more athletic opportunities for women.

  Donna Lopiano

  Opportunity, Ice Cream, Athletic

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• Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

  Ansel Adams

  Space, Sunrise, Green

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• Along the river's summer walk,
  The withered tufts of asters nod;
  And trembles on its arid stalk
  the hoar plum of the golden-rod.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Summer, Journey, July

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.208

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• It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

  Bertrand Russell

  Birthday, Doors, Dragons

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Leadership, Business

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• Golden Rule”: “That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.

  Hillel the Elder

  Hateful, Torah, Explanation

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• To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  People, Golden Rule, Depends

  "Don't Try to Live Your Life in One Day!". Book by Johnny Ong, p. 171, 2008.

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• Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

  Elinor Glyn

  Love, Romantic, Marriage

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• How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly he spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in, With gently smiling jaws!

  Lewis Carroll

  Water, Shining, Tails

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 2 (1865)

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• The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Age, Gold

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