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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
 You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of 
thorns--you shall not crucify mankind upon read more 
 You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of 
thorns--you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold! 
Speech is silver; silence is golden.
Speech is silver; silence is golden.
And yet he hadde "a thombe of gold" pardee.
And yet he hadde "a thombe of gold" pardee.
 Commerce has set the mark of selfishness,
 The signet of its all-enslaving power
  Upon a shining ore, read more 
 Commerce has set the mark of selfishness,
 The signet of its all-enslaving power
  Upon a shining ore, and called it gold;
   Before whose image bow the vulgar great,
    The vainly rich, the miserable proud,
     The mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings,
      And with blind feelings reverence the power
       That grinds them to the dust of misery.
        But in the temple of their hireling hearts
         Gold is a living god, and rules in scorn
          All earthly things but virtue. 
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is read more
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
 What female heart can gold despise?
 What cat's averse to fish?  
 What female heart can gold despise?
 What cat's averse to fish? 
 Thou that so stoutly hast resisted me,
 Give me thy gold, if thou hast any gold;
  For read more 
 Thou that so stoutly hast resisted me,
 Give me thy gold, if thou hast any gold;
  For I have bought it with an hundred blows. 
There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murther in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds read more
There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murther in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell:.