"By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun."
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"A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself."
"The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun."
"You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule."
"A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross."
"Before thee stands this fair Hesperides, With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched; For death-like dragons here affright thee hard."
"I loved the way she said 'LA'; I love the way everybody says 'LA' on the Coast; it's their one and only golden town when all is said and done."
"Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked."
"Party of Five" won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series."
"That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest."
"The golden rule when reading the menu is, if you cannot pronounce it, you cannot afford it."
"Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm"
"Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden."
"Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered."
"Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links Both Goddesses and Gods."
"I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep!"
"I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I'll be damned if I want most folk out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves."
"What is realisation? Realisation is my conscious and constant sailing with my Inner Pilot in His Golden Boat towards the uncharted land, where sooner than at once beauty, divinity and Immortality seeds grow into the richest harvest."
"The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver!"
"I could never be lonely without a husband, but without my trinkets, my golden gods, I could find abysmal gloom."