Golden Quotes - Page 34

• Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe out the dark reproaches unsparingly hurled against us by our enemies. Let us win for ourselves the gratitude of our country, and the best blessings of our posterity through all time.

  Frederick Douglass

  Country, Gratitude, War

  Frederick Douglass (1952). “The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: The Civil War, 1861-1865”

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• In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politicians’ fingerprints on the murder weapon.

  Thomas Sowell

  Eggs, Long, Political

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• Silent night, holy
  night, when the bough flies from the tree
  and is hung everywhere, when
  from tables the crusts fly,
  when the gifts begin to tremble
  because lovelessness walks through the world,
  because it snarls at you, barks at you from the snow,
  and the silver ribbons rip and the tinsel rustles silvery,
  and the silver and gold, and a golden word
  come to you on which you choke
  because you have been sold and betrayed,
  and because it does not suffice that for you
  one is redeemed who once died.

  Ingeborg Bachmann

  Rip, Night, Snow

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• O poor New England! There is a deep laid plot against your civil and religious liberties, and they will be lost. Your golden days are at an end. You have nothing but trouble before you. . . . Your liberties will be lost.

  George Whitefield

  Religious, Golden Days, Liberty

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• Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor and on they go as their fathers went before them till weary and sick at heart they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.

  Samuel Rogers

  Regret, Father, Heart

  Samuel Rogers (1842). “Italy, a Poem”, p.178

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• Hebe's here, May is here!
  The air is fresh and sunny;
  And the miser-bees are busy
  Hoarding golden honey.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Air, Hoarding, May

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1882). “The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• All furnished, all in arms;
  All plum'd like estridges that with the wind
  Bated like eagles having lately bathed;
  Glittering in golden coats like images;
  As full of spirit as the month of May
  And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer;
  Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.

  William Shakespeare

  Eagles, Wind, Plums

  William Shakespeare (1806). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.298

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• Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet,
  Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet,
  And golden locks in breezy play,
  Half teasing and half tender, to repeat
  Her song of May.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Song, Sweet, Spring

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• I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.

  Linus Pauling

  Errors, Twenties, Do Unto Others

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• The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Hate, Neighbor, Neurotic

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.

  Alan Seeger

  Joy, Earth, Purses

  Alan Seeger (2001). “Poems”

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• San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate

  Gavin Newsom

  Beautiful, Cities In The World, Jewels

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• Our fears can cause us to miss out on a lot of experiences and golden opportunities. Don't let your fears rob you of your life.

  James Van Praagh

  Opportunity, Missing, Causes

  FaceBook post by James Van Praagh from Jan 31, 2015

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• The American people have entered upon the mightiest civic struggle known to their history. ... The Golden Rule is rejected by the heads of all the great departments of trade, and the law of Cain, which repudiates the obligations that we are mutually under to one another, is fostered and made the rule of action throughout the world. Corporate feudality has taken the place of chattel slavery and vaunts its power in every state.

  James B. Weaver

  Struggle, Taken, Law

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• Inside we are all Golden Buddha's, but we grew to believe we were made of clay. Our ego's false perceptions led us to grow into a belief system that covered our inner light. We've spent years, maybe decades, masking our truth. Now it's time to embrace our light and reconnect with our Golden Buddha within.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Believe, Light, Years

  Gabrielle Bernstein (2013). “May Cause Miracles: A 6-week Kick-start to Unlimited Happiness”, p.242, Hay House, Inc

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• Whatever form it takes, camping is earthy, soul enriching and character building, and there can be few such satisfying moments as having your tent pitched and the smoke rising from your campfire as the golden sun sets on the horizon--even if it's just for a fleeting moment before the rain spoils everything.

  Pippa Middleton

  Rain, Character, Soul

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• The golden gate to peace in life is the experience of bliss, and it is easy for everyone to acquire this great glory and live it throughout life.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Life Is, Bliss, Glory

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• I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you.

  Jesse Ventura

  Want, Treats, Live By

  Playboy, November 1999.

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• I've never been in a band where someone goes, 'Ah, I've got the perfect name! And it's because I climbed Mount Fuji, and at the top a golden dove came down...' It's always a bunch of guys sitting around going, 'How about Rotten Chipmunks?

  Wes Borland

  Names, Perfect, Guy

  "Limp Bizkit on their reunion album--and who exactly was to blame for their break up in the first place". Interview with Clark Collis, ew.com. May 5, 2010.

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• Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Yoga, Keys

  B.K.S Iyengar (2001). “Astadala Yogamala Volume-3”, p.32, Allied Publishers

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• Read The Golden Key several times. Do exactly what it says, and if you are persistent enough you will overcome any difficulty.

  Emmet Fox

  Keys, Overcoming, Enough

  Emmet Fox “The Golden Key to Prayer”, DMC

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• The fittest, not the richest, make the most enviable mark. Pampered sons of plutocrats may shine for a time in society, but not in the world of affairs and of service unless they rip off their coats and get to work early and stay late. To be born with a golden spoon in the mouth is more of a handicap than a help in attaining worthwhile success in this age.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Rip, Son

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• The love of truth is the stimulus to all noble conversation. This is the root of all the charities. The tree which springs from it may have a thousand branches, but they will all bear a golden and generous fruitage.

  Orville Dewey

  Truth, Spring, Roots

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• In tangled wreath, in clustered gleaming stars,
  In floating, curling sprays,
  The golden flower comes shining though the woods
  These February days;
  Forth go all hearts, all hands, from out the town,
  To bring her gayly in,
  This wild, sweet Princess of far Florida -
  The yellow jessamine.

  Constance Fenimore Woolson

  Sweet, Stars, Flower

  Clare Benedict, Constance Fenimore Woolson (1930*). “Five Generations (1785-1923): Being Scattered Chapters from the History of the Cooper, Pomeroy, Woolson and Benedict Families, with Extracts from Their Letters and Journals, as Well as Articles and Poems by Constance Fenimore Woolson”

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• Triumphant hours are the Lark's
  Who circles skywards from his home each day:
  World's early riser, with bubbling golden song,
  Towards the firmament, guardian of April's gate.

  Dafydd ap Gwilym

  Inspirational, Life, Song

  Dafydd ap Gwilym (1982). “Dafydd Ap Gwilym: A Selection of Poems”

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