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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And yet he hadde "a thombe of gold" pardee.
And yet he hadde "a thombe of gold" pardee.
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of
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thorns--you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!
There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murther in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds read more
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Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.
Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.
Gold is a vain and foolish fancy.
[Fr., L'or est une chimere.]
Gold is a vain and foolish fancy.
[Fr., L'or est une chimere.]
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.
One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.
Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
