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“But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.”

All Things Gold Herds

Book:The Canterbury Tales: From the Text and with the Notes and Glossary of Thomas Tyrwhitt : Condensed and Arranged Under the Text

Source: The Canterbury Tales: From the Text and with the Notes and Glossary of Thomas Tyrwhitt : Condensed and Arranged Under the Text

“These are the lords That have bought titles: men may merchandise Wares, ay and traffic in all commodities From sea to sea, and from shore to shore: But in my thought, of all things that are sold, 'Tis pity honor should be bought for gold: It cuts off all desert.”

Men Should May Lord Cutting Sea Honor All Things Gold Pity Desert Titles Shore Traffic Commodity My Thoughts Merchandise

Author:Eliza Haywood

“It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.”

Hands Earth Given Blood Advantage All Things Gold Instruments Remarkable Silver Iron Providence Slaughter Gold And Silver Bowels

Author:Seneca the Younger

“All things of the sea belong to Venus; pearls and shells and alchemists' gold and kelp and the riggish smell of neap tides, the inshore green, and purple further out and the joy of distances and the roar of falling masonry, all these are hers, but she doesn't come out of the sea for all of us.”

Joy Fall Sea All Things Gold Green Distance Smell Tides Shells Pearls Purple Alchemist Venus Masonry

Book:John Cheever: Complete Novels

Source: John Cheever: Complete Novels

“Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.”

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.”

Cost Devil All Things Gold Dross

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.”

Ifs Has Beens Reason Values Water Economy Elements All Things Gold Opposites Metaphor Locked Ecology Locked Up Mobility Fluidity

Book:Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

Source: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

“Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!”

Life Heart Self Hands Sacrifice Self Love All Things Gold Love Life Bless Prostitution Ruthless Heart Love Love Sacrifice

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton