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What female heart can gold despise?
What cat's averse to fish?

What female heart can gold despise?
What cat's averse to fish?

by Thomas Gray Found in: Cats Quotes, Gold Quotes,
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Stronger than thunder's winged force
All-powerful gold can speed its course;
Through watchful guards its passage make,
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Stronger than thunder's winged force
All-powerful gold can speed its course;
Through watchful guards its passage make,
And loves through solid walls to break.
[Lat., Aurum per medios ire satellites
Et perrumpere amat saxa potentius
Ictu fulmineo.]

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Speech is silver; silence is golden.

Speech is silver; silence is golden.

by Swiss Proverb Found in: Gold Quotes,
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

by R. Buckminster Fuller Found in: Gold Quotes,
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.

Every honest miller has a golden thumb.

by Geoffrey Chaucer Found in: Gold Quotes,
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Gold begets in brethren hate;
Gold in families debate;
Gold does friendship separate;
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Gold begets in brethren hate;
Gold in families debate;
Gold does friendship separate;
Gold does civil wars create.

by Abraham Cowley Found in: Gold Quotes,
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Gold has worked down from Alexander's time ... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe read more

Gold has worked down from Alexander's time ... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

by Bernard M. Baruch Found in: Gold Quotes,
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It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

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I see, the jewel best enamelled
Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still
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I see, the jewel best enamelled
Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still
That others touch, and often touching will
Wear gold; and no man that hath a name,
By falsehood and corruption doth it shame.

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