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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.

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

These are Gerald Celente's three Gs: gold, guns and a getaway plan.

The secret of evangelism is Guy's golden touch - whatever is gold, Guy touches. That’s very different than saying whatever Guy touches turns gold.

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.

These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of the poppies.

The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold.

The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold.

The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.

The soul will never become pious and purified except through undergoing afflictions. It is the same as gold that can never be pure except after removing all the base metals in it.

The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.

The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

The strength in gold is revealing the general weakness in the dollar.

The streets weren't paved with gold and Rose petals [when I was young]. "Do I have a horn to sell this month to pay my rent, or what am I going to do?" It was what it was.

The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its nets of gold

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.

The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.

The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat.

The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

The ultimate asset bubble is gold.

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.

The United States deserves nothing but love and adoration and gold medals left and right and peace prizes left and right, things we never get.

The value of a yellow metal (gold), originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly a chancy and irrelevant thing on which to base the value of our money and the stability of our industrial system.

The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain.

The way I see it, gold is headed over $1000 an ounce, probably much higher. At anywhere near current prices, it's the lowest risk, highest potential investment I can think of.

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.

Thinkers are as scarce as gold.

They came from all over the world to work out at Gold's Gym.

They dont understand what real treasure is. They see it in gold and copper, and tin. They see in herds of horses or cattle. They gather treasures to themselves, building great storehouses, which they guard ferociously. Then they die. What good is it then?

they say in the old tales that when a man and woman exchange looks the way we did, their spirits mingle. their gaze is a rope of gold binding each other. even if they never meet again, they carry a little of the other with them always. they can never forget, and they can never be wholly happy again

Things that really matter are the things that gold can't buy, so let's have another cup o' coffee and let's have another piece o' pie.

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing.

Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.

This is a test, isn't it? It's like choosing out of three caskets in a fairy tale. Everyone knows the rules. You never choose the gold shiny one. Or even the quite impressive silver one. What you're supposed to do is choose the dull little lead one, and then there's a flash of light and it turns into a mountain of jewels

This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.

This is the first medal I've ever won in an international meet. For it to be gold is incredible. It feels great. I can't explain it.

This Mayagüez gold, my third consecutive with the national team, has a strawberry flavor.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.

Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions, and thus escape the flood. For these few gold has been the asset of last resort.

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same.

Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.

Throw not my words away, as many do;They're gold in value, though they're cheap to you.

Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe.