How quickly nature falls into revolt
When gold becomes her object!
For this the foolish overcareful fathers
Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care.
Their bones with industry.
For this they have engrossed and piled up
The cankered heaps of strange-achieved gold;
For this they have been thoughtful to invest
Their sons with arts and martial exercises.
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Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
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What female heart can gold despise?
What cat's averse to fish?
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Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold...
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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:.
Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.
Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
That is gold which is worth gold.
That is gold which is worth gold.
