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• Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Virtue, Scorn, Earthly Things

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, G. Cuningham (1856). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: With Notes”, p.81

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• Every honest miller has a golden thumb.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Thumbs, Golden, Honest

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1881). “The prologue to the Canterbury tales, with notes by E.F. Willoughby”

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• Gold is not necessary. I have no interest in gold. We'll build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration. That's the bastion of money.

  Adolf Hitler

  States, Concentration, Interest

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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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Lust, Lasts

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.328

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• The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.

  Gerald M. Loeb

  Race, Desire, Instinct

  Gerald M. Loeb (2007). “Battle for Investment Survival”, p.102, John Wiley & Sons

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• You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Thorns, Bankers, Crosses

  Speech at Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Ill., 8 July 1896. In an earlier speech in the House of Representatives, 22 Dec. 1894, Bryan had said: "I shall not help crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. I shall not aid in pressing down upon the bleeding brow of labor this crown of thorns."

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• Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

  Christopher Columbus

  Soul, Wish, Doe

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• Even during the period when Rome lost much of her ancient prestige, an Indian traveler observed that trade all over the world was operated with the aid of Roman gold coins which were accepted and admired everywhere.

  Paul Einzig

  Rome, Coins, World

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• That is gold which is worth gold.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.317

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• The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Mind, Modern, Dislike

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• Gold were as good as twenty orators.

  William Shakespeare

  Twenties, Orators

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1872). “Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible Passages, Illustrative of the Various Passions, Affections and Emotions of the Human Mind”, p.148

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• Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold.

  George Herbert

  Locks

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• He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

  Gary North

  Government, Years, Humans

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• It is a sobering fact that the prominence of central banks in this century has coincided with a general tendency towards more inflation, not less. [I]f the overriding objective is price stability, we did better with the nineteenth-century gold standard and passive central banks, with currency boards, or even with 'free banking.' The truly unique power of a central bank, after all, is the power to create money, and ultimately the power to create is the power to destroy.

  Paul Volcker

  Unique, Boards, Banking

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• An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

  Alan Greenspan

  Freedom, Issues, Persuasion

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.89, Penguin

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• We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.

  Hernando Cortes

  Heart, Historical, Sickness

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• I've always been fascinated by the Gold Coast. The homes themselves are spectacular, unlike anything you'll see other than in Newport, Bar Harbor or Palm Beach. It's a very special area that, because of local demographics, is not going to survive much longer.

  Nelson DeMille

  Beach, Home, Special

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• Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Strength, Being Strong, Fantasy Novels

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Giving, Poverty, Appearance

  "Satires (Satire 8)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1716.

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• Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

  Alfred Marshall

  Country, Money, Silver

  Alfred Marshall (2009). “Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

  William Moulton Marston

  Work, Butterfly, Chasing Butterflies

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• The history of paper money is an account of abuse, mismanagement, and financial disaster.

  Richard Ebeling

  Abuse, Paper, Financial

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• A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Vices, Thirst

  Lord Byron (2013). “The Vision of Judgement”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

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• More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Funny, Money

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.40, Lulu.com

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• All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Venice, Heard

  William Shakespeare (1805). “The Comedy of the Merchant of Venice ...”, p.57

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