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It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only, that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in the universe, over and above the meaning of matter and forces, there is a message conveyed through the magic touch of personality. ... Is it merely because the rose is round and pink that it gives me more satisfaction than the gold which could buy me the necessities of life, or any number of slaves. ... Somehow we feel that through a rose the language of love reached our hearts.

Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.

It is a wealthy person, indeed, who calculates riches not in gold but in friends.

Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold;_x000D__x000D_Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold,_x000D__x000D_Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway,_x000D__x000D_Can bribe the poor possession of the day.

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.

Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes.

I'm just so excited. We all are. We've been waiting for this [the gold medal] for years now and it's finally here. This meant so much. It just felt so good.

Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.

I positively, positively, positively want to play. I've got everything else so why not a gold medal? I want to play.

Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?

ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog.

Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords or pens, gold or fame, the game's the thing.

Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.

...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not begging at the welfare office. They are not, like many of their employers, lobbying the halls of Congress with their gold plated tin cups asking to be paid for not growing crops. They are trying to do it in the way that millions of other Americans have shown is the right way-organization, unionism, collective bargaining.

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

Land! An island! We devoured it greedily with our eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in all directions as if they thought our bow was about to run on to a beach. Screaming seabirds formed a bridge across the sky in the direction of the distant island, which stood out sharper against the horizon as the red background widened and turned gold with the approach of the sun and the full daylight.

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