I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.
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There wouldn't be such a thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real gold somewhere.
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An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.
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Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
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Everything has its limitiron ore cannot be educated into gold. - 1906
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle
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Where as gold is the kindest of all hosts when it shines in the sky, it comes an evil guest unto those that receive it in their hand.
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Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains those who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple.
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When the Japanese mend broken objects they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold, because they believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.
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Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
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O gold! I still prefer thee unto paper which makes bank credit like a bank of vapour.
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Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
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As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.
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The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.
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Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
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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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Try your skill in gilt first, then in gold
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.
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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay
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