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A quarrel ho! already! What's the matter? 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.'

You have a choice between the natural stability of gold and the honesty and intelligence of the members of government. And with all due respect for those gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, vote for gold.

Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, The signet of its all-enslaving power Upon a shining ore, and called it gold; Before whose image bow the vulgar great, The vainly rich, the miserable proud, The mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, And with blind feelings reverence the power That grinds them to the dust of misery. But in the temple of their hireling hearts Gold is a living god, and rules in scorn All earthly things but virtue.

Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do?

A mask of gold hides all deformities.

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

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Speech is silver; silence is golden.

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.

Though wisdom cannot be gotten with gold, still less can it be gotten without it.

The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.

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

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

The man who works for the gold in the job rather than for the money in the pay envelope, is the fellow who gets on.

Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble.

There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murther in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell:.

Gold will be slave or master.

Gold has worked down from Alexander's time ... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

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