“I am a firm believer that every few years one needs to shake one's life through a sieve, like a miner in the Yukon. The gold nuggets remain. The rest falls through like the soft earth it is.” NeedsYearsEarthFallGoldBelieverFirmShakesMinersNuggetsYear OneYukon Book:Yes Please Source: Yes Please
“Once more the liberal year laughs out O'er richer stores than gems or gold: Once more with harvest song and shout Is nature's boldest triumph told.” YearsSongFallLaughingGoldStoresTriumphAutumnHarvestGemsNovember PoemsSummer To FallFall And Winter Author:John Greenleaf Whittier
“Deliver me from the long drought of the mind. Let leaves from the deciduous Cross fall on us, washing us clean, turning our autumn to gold by the affluence of their fountain.” MindLongFallCrossesGoldCleanAutumnFountainWashingDroughtAffluence Author:R. S. Thomas
“O Earth, so full of dreary noises! O men, with wailing in your voices! O delved gold, the wader's heap! O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall! God makes a silence through you all, And "giveth His beloved, sleep.” MenEarthDeathFallVoiceSleepSilenceGoldNoiseBelovedCurseStrifeDrearyWailing Author:Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?” WellsWholeFallPoorGoldBlameDustIronUnjustClayBrass Book:Around Old Chester Source: Around Old Chester
“The U. S. is headed toward a period of business depression... beginning within the next two years, which may exceed that which preceded the War. ... The only thing that will save us is a new gold policy or the discovery of a new process or additional gold fields. If the fall [of gold production] is not prevented by design or accident we shall throttle business, wringing out all profits and experiencing all the evils of deflation.” IfsYearsMayTwoWarFallEvilNextProcessPolicyDesignFieldsPeriodsDiscoveryGoldInvestingProfitProductionsAccidentsTwo YearsExceedThrottleDeflationNew Processes Author:Irving Fisher