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    How quickly nature falls into revolt
    When gold becomes her object!
    For this the foolish overcareful fathers
    Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care.
    Their bones with industry.
    For this they have engrossed and piled up
    The cankered heaps of strange-achieved gold;
    For this they have been thoughtful to invest
    Their sons with arts and martial exercises.

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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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(Portia:) A quarrel ho! already! What's the matter?
(Gratiano:) About a hoop of gold, a paltry ring
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(Portia:) A quarrel ho! already! What's the matter?
(Gratiano:) About a hoop of gold, a paltry ring
That she did give me, whose posy was
For all the world like cutler's poetry
Upon a knife--'Love me, and leave me not.'

by William Shakespeare 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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Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.

by Vergil Found in: Gold Quotes,
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Gold! gold! gold! gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

Gold! gold! gold! gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

by Thomas Hood Found in: Gold Sayings, General Sayings,
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An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.

An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.

by Romanian Proverb Found in: Gold Quotes,
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Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of
gold; by gold love is procured.
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Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of
gold; by gold love is procured.
[Lat., Aurea nunc vere sunt saecula; plurimus auto
Venit honos; auro concilatur amor.]

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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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And yet he hadde "a thombe of gold" pardee.

And yet he hadde "a thombe of gold" pardee.

by Geoffrey Chaucer Found in: Gold Quotes,
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