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"Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore."
"Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold."
"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious."
"Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold."
"Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money."
"Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold."
"Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth from appearances. And indeed the use and benefit of this touchstone, which is natural reason, is spoiled and lost only by assuming prejudices, overweening presumption, and narrowing our minds."
"All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue."
"Wisdom is better than silver and gold"
"Conflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold."
"Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold."
"[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head."
"Speech is silver, silence is golden."
"The public wanted a fairy princess to come and touch them and everything would turn to gold. Little did they realise that the individual is crucifying herself inside because she didn't think she was good enough."
"If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung Would you hear my voice come through the music Would you hold it near as it were your own?"
"Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative."
"If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold, I'd have all the treasures my pockets could hold."
"When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble."
"All that glitters is not gold."
"I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold."
