Horace Quotes, Gold Quotes, Silver Quotes

Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]

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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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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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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

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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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A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

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Love is the only gold.

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Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.

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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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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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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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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Gold Quotes , Fields Quotes

O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

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So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold.

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

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Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.

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When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of 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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A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.

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What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

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