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“Gold and silver grow, and so does every other kind of metal, the same as the hair upon my head, or the wheat in the field; they do not grow as fast, but they are all the time composing or decomposing”

Kind Doe Grows Fields Hair Gold Silver Metals Wheat Composing Gold And Silver

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“Of two men looking at a green field, one estimates its yield in bushels and calculates the price of the bushels in silver and in gold. The other drinks the greenness of the field with his eye, and kisses every blade with his thought, and fraternizes in his soul with every rootlet and pebble, and every clod of earth.”

Men Two Soul Eye Earth Money Fields Drink Kissing Gold Green His Eyes Silver Yield Blades Pebbles Green Fields

Book:The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark

Source: The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark

“The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold; And there Jerusalem's pillars stood.”

Fields Gold Saint Woods Hills Pillars Jerusalem

Author:William Blake

“Swift blazing flag of the regiment,Eagle with crest of red and gold,These men were born to drill and die.Point for them the virtue of slaughter,Make plain to them the excellence of killingAnd a field where a thousand corpses lie.”

Men Lying Dies Born Virtue Fields Thousand Red Gold Excellence Flags Eagles Corpses Slaughter Drills Blazing

Book:The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories

Source: The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories

“Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes, and gives free passage to the sun-coursers with which it leaves those heavenly fields of light for the gross battlefields of earth.”

Giving War Light Earth Money Millions Sun Fields Genius Gold Heavenly Passages Gross Foe Scorn Battlefields Chariots Scythes

Book:Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida

Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida

“The lush green of the fields became a rich gold that swayed sturdily under the wind and fell at last before the hands of the reapers.”

Hands Lasts Rich Fields Wind Gold Green Autumn Reaper Lush

Book:The Mad Carews

Source: The Mad Carews

“Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.”

Has Beens Book Fields Gold Explorers Misers

Author:Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

“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.”

Ifs Years May Two War Fall Evil Next Process Policy Design Fields Periods Discovery Gold Investing Profit Productions Accidents Two Years Exceed Throttle Deflation New Processes

Author:Irving Fisher

“I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.”

Ifs Giving Has Beens Book Joy Reading Memories Fields Giving Up Advantage Gold Pursuit If I Could Occupation Reading Books Explorers Misers

Author:Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

“It was October again ... a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate mists as if the spirit of autumn had poured them in for the sun to drain - amethyst, pearl, silver, rose, and smoke-blue. The dews were so heavy that the fields glistened like cloth of silver and there were such heaps of rustling leaves in the hollows of many-stemmed woods to run crisply through.”

Source: L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more

“I never made promises lightly There may have been some that I've broken But I swear in the days still left We will walk in fields of gold”

May Has Beens Made Stills Song Left Walks Fields Broken Promise Gold Swear Old Song

Author:Sting

“Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.”

Heart May Past Moving Joy Speak Memories Forget Grief Tree Sea Sky Fields Flower Broken Rivers Gold Green Pity Unseen Folds Ripple Gleam Heart Broke Mead Glisten

Author:William Morris

“People find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out.”

People Fields Bed Rivers Gold Pockets Veins

Author:Art Linkletter

“Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.”

Real Running Born Friendship Fields Basketball Gold Competition Dust Awards Strife Athletic Gold Medals Athletic Ability Athletic Competition Real Gold Gold Dust

Author:Jesse Owens

“Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? Unpopular cuts? How about just a little miracle, an overnight increase in gold reserves, a new oil field, or the next world-changing communications technology? Surely that's not too much to ask.”

“Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.”

Source: Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems

“Tell me the word that will win you, and I will speak it. I will speak the stars of heaven into a crown for your head; I will speak the flowers of the field into a cloak; I will speak the racing stream into a melody for your ears and the voices of a thousand larks to sing it; I will speak the softness of night for your bed and the warmth of summer for your coverlet; I will speak the brightness of flame to light your way and the luster of gold to shine in your smile; I will speak until the hardness in you melts away and your heart is free.”

“Harry was speeding toward the ground when the crowd saw him clap his hand to his mouth as though he was going to be sick-he hit the field on all fours-coughed-and something gold fell into his hand. 'I've got the snitch!' he shouted, waving it above his head, and the game ended in complete confusion. 'He didn't catch it, he nearly swalloed it,' Flint was still howling twenty minutes later, but it made no difference-Harry hadn't broken any rules and Lee Jordan was still happily shouting the results-Gryffindor had won by 170 points to 60.”

Made Stills Hands Games Differences Results Saws Minutes Fields Broken Mouths Gold Sick Twenties Crowds Confusion Jordan Shouting Speeding Fours Gryffindor Snitch

Author:J. K. Rowling

“For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go.”

Giving Looks Country Hands Age Grows Growing Up Plans Blood Land Fields Letters Gold West Old Age Hills Empires Bubbles Tides Blades

Author:Robert Penn Warren

“I remember once walking out hand in hand with a boy I knew, and it was summer, and suddenly before us was a field of gold. Gold as far as you could see. We knew we'd be rich forever. We filled our pockets and our hair. We were rolled in gold. We ran through the field laughing and our legs and feet were coated in yellow dust, so that we were like golden statues or golden gods. He kissed my feet, the boy I was with, and when he smiled, he had a gold tooth. It was only a field of buttercups, but we were young.”

“It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky, deep green fields, leaves in a thousand luminous hues. It is a truly astounding sight when every tree in a landscape becomes individual, when each winding back highway and plump hillside is suddenly and infinitely splashed with every sharp shade that nature can bestow - flaming scarlet, lustrous gold, throbbing vermilion, fiery orange.”

World Individual Tree Sky Fields Thousand Perfection Gold Sight Blue Green Landscape Autumn Shade Orange Highways Vivid Luminous Fiery Blue Sky Hue Scarlet Crisps Sumptuous Green Fields

Author:Bill Bryson

“If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lying by the wayside. It takes a little luck to be able to distinguish gold from dross, but that is all.”

“Whereas the chemico-chemists always find in industry a beautiful field of gold-laden soil, the physico-chemists stand somewhat farther off, especially those who seek only the greatest dilution, for in general there is little to make with watery solutions.”

Littles Beautiful Science Fields Industry Solutions Gold Soil Chemistry Chemist

Author:Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

“No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the vision you wake up with in the morning, and it's the last thing you picture before you fall asleep. Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail: You not only want to win a gold medal at the Olympics, you not only can see yourself standing there on the podium, but you can also feel the goose bumps as your national anthem is played; the tears are in your eyes. (That's how real a dream can be and should be)”

“The Montefiores have taken Australia for their own, and there is not a gold field or a sheep run from Tasmania to New South Wales that does not pay them a heavy tribute. They are the real owners of the antipodean continent. What is the good of our being a wealthy nation, if the wealth is all in the hands of German Jews?”

Ifs Doe Real Hands Running Nations Wealth Pay Taken Fields Gold South Jew Heavy Australia Owners Wealthy Sheep Continents Tribute Wales Tasmania

Author:Will Hughes