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You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of
thorns--you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!
Author: William Jennings Bryan
Source: at the Democratic Convention
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A thirst for gold,
The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm
The meanest hearts.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: The Vision of Judgment (st. 43)
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Source: The Canterbury Tales, old saying
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For gold in phisik is a cordial;
Therefore he lovede gold in special.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Source: The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 443)
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And yet he hadde "a thombe of gold" pardee.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Source: The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 563)
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Gold begets in brethren hate;
Gold in families debate;
Gold does friendship separate;
Gold does civil wars create.
Author: Abraham Cowley
Source: Anacreontics--Gold (l. 17)
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What female heart can gold despise?
What cat's averse to fish?
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: On the Death of a Favorite Cat
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That is gold which is worth gold.
Author: George Herbert
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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Gold! gold! gold! gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold!
Author: Thomas Hood
Source: Miss Kilmansegg--Her Moral
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Stronger than thunder's winged force
All-powerful gold can speed its course;
Through watchful guards its passage make,
And loves through solid walls to break.
[Lat., Aurum per medios ire satellites
Et perrumpere amat saxa potentius
Ictu fulmineo.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Ode XVI (bk. III, l. 12), (Francis' translation)
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The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest;
The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless!
The last corruption of degenerate man.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: Irene (act I, sc. 1)
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air,
For that without it were else a miserable affair.
[Fr., L'or donne aux plus laids certain charme pour plaire,
Et que sans lui le reste est une triste affaire.]
Author: Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
Source: Sganarelle (I)
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Rich and rare were the gems she wore,
And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.
Author: Thomas Moore
Source: Irish Melodies--Rich and Rare were the Gems She Wore
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Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of
gold; by gold love is procured.
[Lat., Aurea nunc vere sunt saecula; plurimus auto
Venit honos; auro concilatur amor.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Ars Amatoria (bk. II, 277)
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Not Philip, but Phillip's gold, took the cities of Greece.
Author: Plutarch
Source: Life of Paulus Aemilius, quoted as a common saying, referring to Philip II of Macedon
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows;
'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Moral Essay (ep. III, l. 21)
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Gold is a vain and foolish fancy.
[Fr., L'or est une chimere.]
Author: Augustus Eugene Scribe and Germain Delavigne
Source: Robert le Diable (ch. I, sc. 7)
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I see, the jewel best enamelled
Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still
That others touch, and often touching will
Wear gold; and no man that hath a name,
By falsehood and corruption doth it shame.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Comedy of Errors (Adriana at II, i)
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How quickly nature falls into revolt
When gold becomes her object!
For this the foolish overcareful fathers
Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care.
Their bones with industry.
For this they have engrossed and piled up
The cankered heaps of strange-achieved gold;
For this they have been thoughtful to invest
Their sons with arts and martial exercises.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (King Henry at IV, v)
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Thou that so stoutly hast resisted me,
Give me thy gold, if thou hast any gold;
For I have bought it with an hundred blows.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Father at II, v)
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(Portia:) A quarrel ho! already! What's the matter?
(Gratiano:) About a hoop of gold, a paltry ring
That she did give me, whose posy was
For all the world like cutler's poetry
Upon a knife--'Love me, and leave me not.'
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia & Gratiano at V, i)
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You have a choice between the natural stability of gold and the
honesty and intelligence of the members of government. And with
all due respect for those gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the
capitalist system lasts, vote for gold.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia & Gratiano at V, i)
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Commerce has set the mark of selfishness,
The signet of its all-enslaving power
Upon a shining ore, and called it gold;
Before whose image bow the vulgar great,
The vainly rich, the miserable proud,
The mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings,
And with blind feelings reverence the power
That grinds them to the dust of misery.
But in the temple of their hireling hearts
Gold is a living god, and rules in scorn
All earthly things but virtue.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Source: Queen Mab (pt. V, st. 4)
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Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to
do?
[Lat., Quid non mortalia pectora cogis,
Auri sacra fames?]
Author: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil)
Source: The Aeneid (III, 56)
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A mask of gold hides all deformities.
Author: Thomas Dekker
Source: None
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An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.
Author: Romanian Proverb
Source: None
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
Author: R. Buckminster Fuller
Source: None
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Speech is silver; silence is golden.
Author: Swiss Proverb
Source: None
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It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
Author: Thomas Fuller
Source: None
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Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.
Author: Carter G. Woodson
Source: None
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Though wisdom cannot be gotten with gold, still less can it be gotten without it.
Author: Samuel Butler
Source: None
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The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.
Author: Marjorie Holmes
Source: None
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Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
Author: Thomas Hood
Source: None
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Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
Author: Antoine Rivarol
Source: None
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The man who works for the gold in the job rather than for the money in the pay envelope, is the fellow who gets on.
Author: Joseph French Johnson
Source: None
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Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble.
Author: Yiddish Proverb
Source: None
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There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murther in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell:.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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Gold will be slave or master.
Author: Horace
Source: None
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Gold has worked down from Alexander's time ... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
Author: Bernard M. Baruch
Source: None
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Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
Author: Vergil
Source: None
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