Gold Quotes
These are some of the best 'Gold' quotations and sayings.
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Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do?
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Give him gold enough, and marry him to a puppet, or an aglet-baby, or an old trot with ne'er a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two and fifty horses; why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.
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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.
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Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold
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Gold, like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls and contracts bad hearts.
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How quickly nature falls to revolt when gold becomes her object.
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It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
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It is observed of gold, in an old epigram, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.
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Mammon has enriched his thousands, and has damned his ten thousands.
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Midas longed for gold.-He got it, so that whatever he touched became gold, and he, with his long ears, was little the better for it.
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O cursed lust of gold! when, for thy sake, the fool throws up his interest in both worlds, first starved in this, then damned in that to come!
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The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless, the last corruption of degenerate man.
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There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp, - gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both, may indeed attain the highest station, but he must know something more to keep it.
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They who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this, have at least one thing to plead in defence of their idolatry - the power of their idol. - This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.
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To purchase heaven has gold the power? can gold remove the mortal hour? in life can love be bought with gold? are friendship's pleasures to be sold? no - all that's worth a wish - a thought, fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought. Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind, let nobler views engage thy mind.
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