Adam Smith Quotes, Doubt Quotes, Gold Quotes

It would be too ridiculous to go about seriously to prove that wealth does not consist in money, or in gold and silver; but in what money purchases, and is valuable only for purchasing. Money no doubt, makes always a part of the national capital; but it has already been shown that it generally makes but a small part, and always the most unprofitable part of it.

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I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.

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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

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

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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

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Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.

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Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.

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To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.

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We have made it possible, without gold and without foreign exchange, to maintain the value of the German mark. Behind the German mark stands the German capacity for work, while some foreign countries, suffocated by gold, have been compelled to devalue their currencies.

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For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor.

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All the manifested world of things and beings are projected by imagination upon the substratum which is the Eternal All-pervading Vishnu, whose nature is Existence-Intelligence; just as the different ornaments are all made out of the same gold.

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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

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It is better to get wisdom than gold. Gold is another's, wisdom is our own; gold is for the body and time, wisdom for the soul and eternity.

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Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.

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Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!

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A good heart 'is worth gold.

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But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?

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Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

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