Silver Quotes

• Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Teacher, Atheist

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.102, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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  It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Fitness, Real

  "Spiritual Wealth Management: The Abundance Bible and Prosperity Manifesto". Book by George S. Mentz (p. 114), September 1, 2012.

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• For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

  Martin Luther

  Nature, Tree, Earth Day

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• Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;
  Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
  And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.
  All men make faults.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Moon, Men

  Sonnet 35

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• The dawn came - not the flaming sky that promises storm, but a golden dawn of infinite promise. The birds came flying up out of the east in wedge-shaped formation, and the mist lifted in soft wreaths of sun-shot silver. Colour came back to the world. The grass glowed with a green so vivid that it seemed pulsing, like flame, from some hidden fire in the earth, the distant woods took on all the amazing deep crimsons and purples of their winter colouring, the banks were studded with their jewels of lichens and bright moss, and above the wet hedges shone with sun-shot orbs of light.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Winter, Fire, Light

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• If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.

  Matthew Quick

  Stay Strong, Block, Clouds

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspirational, God, Dedication

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• I opened up to you and you judge me

  Matthew Quick

  Judging, Up To You, Judge Me

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• The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.

  Oswald Chambers

  Shining, Tears, Tests

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.305, Discovery House

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• Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Hope, Witty

  Don Marquis (2012). “Archy and Mehitabel”, p.54, Anchor

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• Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have faith in its course. It will go on its own way, meandering here, trickling there. It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight. It will take you.

  Sheng-yen

  Inspirational, Faith, Spiritual

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• Every silver lining has a cloud.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Leadership, Wisdom, Adversity

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• Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Dark, Reflection

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.208, Wordsworth Editions

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• There will always be a part of me that is dirty and sloppy, but I like that, just like all the other parts of myself.

  Matthew Quick

  Dirty, Playbooks, Sloppy

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• Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Art, Dark, Men

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• No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart of the dewdrops of summer dawns. The feathery leaves of yarrow are thick with silver rime and dry thistle heads rise like goblets plated with silver catching the sun.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

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• All that I have achieved are these dreams locked in silver.

  Paul Caponigro

  Dream, Photographer, Locked

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• The only silver lining I can find is that British accents aren't sexy anymore.

  Bill Maher

  Sexy, Accents, British

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• Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.

  Arundhati Roy

  Eye, Sea, Secret

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• We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the fishers hook ? by greed, by trafficking, by violence, by ruse or by excessive manual work that deprives you of leisure for the service of God ? in a word by any other means ? if you have desired to pile up gold or silver, remember what the Gospel says, 'Fool! They will snatch your soul away during the night! Who will get your hoard' (cf. Lk. 12:20)? Again, 'He piles up money without knowing to whom it will go' (Ps. 39:6).

  Pachomius the Great

  Christian, Mean, Night

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• I 'd rather be handsome than homely; I 'd rather be youthful than old; If I can't have a bushel of silver I'll do with a barrel of gold.

  James Jeffrey Roche

  Gold, Handsome, Barrels

  James Jeffrey Roche, “Contentment”

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• You'd be safe to hold 5% of your assets and savings in gold and silver. Insurance for the future.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Gold, Saving, Safe

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• I with borrow'd silver shine,
  What you see is none of mine.
  First I show you but a quarter,
  Like the bow that guards the Tartar:
  Then the half, and then the whole,
  Ever dancing round the pole.

  Jonathan Swift

  Moon, Dancing, Shining

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe. -London, Washbourne 1841”, p.742

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• It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold, and silver, is her grandsire upon his death's-bed-Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!

  William Shakespeare

  Gold, Desire, Pounds

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.2321, BookCaps Study Guides

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