Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Joy Quotes, Gold Quotes

These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.

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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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Gold were as good as twenty orators.

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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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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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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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On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

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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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Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.

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What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow ... As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while.

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Throw not my words away, as many do;They're gold in value, though they're cheap to you.

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Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.

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Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.

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The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold; And there Jerusalem's pillars stood.

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Along the avenue of cypresses, All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices Of linen, go the chanting choristers, The priests in gold and black, the villagers. . . .

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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

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Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

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Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love

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Nature's first green is gold.

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Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.

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