Gold Quotes - Page 19

• Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Light, Ice

  'King John' (1591-8) act 4, sc. 2, l. 9

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• Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Blow, Blue, Wind

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: A Novel”, p.229

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• Knowledge is of more value than gold

  Solomon

  Values

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• You lack a foot to travel? Then journey into yourself - that leads to transformation of dust into pure gold.

  Rumi

  Journey, Feet, Dust

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

  Nas

  Light, Cameras, Glitter

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  You might not have a car or a big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change

  Snoop Dogg

  Inspirational, Car, Might

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• Right after winning the Oscar, when everyone was going home, they let these little gold Oscary shapes flutter down from the ceiling. Leonardo DiCaprio came over, bowed down, and kissed my hand. It was the most fabulous moment - such a lovely gesture. He didn't say anything.

  Helen Mirren

  Home, Winning, Hands

  "Helen Mirren: What I've Learned". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 07, 2011.

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• I looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air.

  Mark Nepo

  Air, Dust, Saws

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.204, Conari Press

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• Imagine that you had discovered gold or oil on a certain property, and no one else knew about it. Can you see yourself being sad and feeling deprived for having to gather all your resources and sacrifice them in order to buy that property? Hardly. Now you know what it is like to deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Jesus.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Order

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• It must have been providence that directed Joel Morwood to dig in the right place, for he struck a lode of pure gold, as wide (comprehensive) as it is deep (profound). What he mined from that lode is a spiritual treasure.

  Huston Smith

  Spiritual, Profound, Treasure

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• Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Winning, Men, Dragons

  D. H. Lawrence (1956). “The Virgin and the Gipsy”

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• Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green - the wattle's wedding dress - and Spring is near. Then suddenly it seems, one golden morning, the Bush awakes, a living thing. Flowers bloom, birds sing, and all the world puts on its gayest dress to greet the laughing Spring.

  C. J. Dennis

  Nature, Morning, Laughter

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• The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones, trees and rocks; and he, wretchedly waiting in the exterior halls, could not even get his finger on one tiny, tiny lever.

  Christina Stead

  Art, Clouds, Rocks

  Christina Stead, Anita Segerberg (1994). “Christina Stead, Selected Fiction and Nonfiction”, UQP

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• The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central fear a fear of intellect.

  Hal Porter

  Art, Ice Cream, Self

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• Let whatever's going to happen, happen. Don't judge it before you do it. Sure, sometimes it will be terrible, but sometimes it will just be amazing. That's where the gold is.

  Cloris Leachman

  Perspective, Judging, Sometimes

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• There is no question that the language of "felt thought" must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it does not lie on the surface.

  Jacques Maritain

  Lying, Poetry, Depth

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• Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Temptation, Bells

  'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 3, l. 12

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• Isn't it somewhat remarkable that we can go back a a few hundred years and find no shortage of quotations from our founding fathers warning us against the dangers of democracy, yet today teachers and politicians use the word as if it were an offering of gold.

  Neal Boortz

  Teacher, Father, Offering

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• A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Coats, May, Fool

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• Avoid people with gold teeth who want to play cards

  George Carlin

  Play, Gold Teeth, People

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• DREAM PREDICTION ELITE is the realization of true amazement in your audiences reactions. This is PURE GOLD - A REAL WINNER

  Banachek

  Dream, Real, Winner

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• October is a fine and dangerous season in America. It is dry and cool and the land is wild with red and gold and crimson, and all the lassitudes of August have seeped out of your blood, and you are full of ambition. It is a wonderful time to begin anything at all.

  Thomas Merton

  Ambition, August, Blood

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.

  J. C. Ryle

  Spiritual, Disappointment, Humble

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• I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Grew

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.1114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Leo Tolstoy

  Truth Is, Bigger, Grows

  R. F. Christian, Leo Tolstoy (2015). “Tolstoy's Diaries Volume 2: 1895-1910”, p.178, Faber & Faber

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