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“A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.”

Way Matter Form Pieces Gold Rings Iron Sensible Receiving Impress

Book:The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]

Source: The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]

“There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp--gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station.”

Knows May Two Know How Highest Gold Iron Stations Camps Metals Cabinets Omnipotent

Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words

Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words

“... 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?”

Wells Whole Fall Poor Gold Blame Dust Iron Unjust Clay Brass

Book:Around Old Chester

Source: Around Old Chester

“If you don't judge my gold chains, I'll forget the iron chains.”

Ifs Forget Judging Gold Chains Iron

Author:LL Cool J

“Test of Metal: Will of Iron, Nerves of Steel, Heart of Gold, Balls of Brass.”

Heart Gold Tests Balls Iron Nerves Metals Steel Brass Heart Of Gold

Author:George Carlin

“The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.”

Men Earth Money Weapons Gold Ill Stores Iron Yield Foe Instigators

Author:Ovid

“The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.”

Way Eye Duty Promise Gold Iron

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth. We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite. We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.”

“Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.”

Inspiration Limits Gold Educational Educated Iron Iron Ore

Book:What Is Man? And Other Essays

Source: What Is Man? And Other Essays

“. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .”

Ifs Men Should Common Wonder Gold Iron Priests Foul Rust Common Man

Book:The Canterbury tales

Source: The Canterbury tales

“Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”

Thinking Firsts Long Moments Flower Expectations Gold Bounds Chains Memorable Iron Links Pauses Formation Thorns Great Expectations Great Expectations Important

Book:British Classics: Great Expectations

Source: British Classics: Great Expectations

“I smiled,"Deoch, my heart is made of stronger stuff than glass. When she strikes she'll find it strong as iron-bound brass, or gold and adamant together mixed. Don't think I am unaware, some startled deer to stand transfixed by hunter's horns. It's she who should take care, for when she strikes, my heart will make a sound so beautiful and bright that it can't help but bring her back to me in winged light.”

Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

“If gold rusts, what then can iron do?”

Ifs Gold Iron Rust Canterbury Tales

Author:Geoffrey Chaucer

“Some say an army of horsemen some an army on foot others say ships laden for war are the fairest things on earth. But I say the fairest sight on this dark earth is the face of the one you love. Nor is it hard to understand: love has humbled the hearts of the proudest queens. And I would rather see you now stepping over my threshold than any soldier greaved in gold or any iron-beaked ship.”

Heart War Hard Earth Faces Dark Feet Gold Sight Army Soldier Ships Queens Iron Threshold One You Love Horsemen

Author:Alison Croggon

“When the Dark comes rising six shall turn it back; Three from the circle, three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; Water, fire, stone; Five will return and one go alone. Iron for the birthday; bronze carried long; Wood from the burning; stone out of song; Fire in the candle ring; water from the thaw; Six signs the circle and the grail gone before. Fire on the mountain shall find the harp of gold Played to wake the sleepers, oldest of old. Power from the Green Witch, lost beneath the sea. All shall find the Light at last, silver on the tree.”

Source: The Dark Is Rising: Movie Tie-in Edition

“Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and lie for hundreds of years on the ocean floor. Worms destroy the wood. Iron corrodes. Silver turns black but gold doesn't change in sea water. It loses none of its brilliance or colour. It comes up the same. It survives shipwrecks and time.”

“Yet each country had items that the other needed. The Arridi had reserves of red gold and iron in their deserts that the Toscans required to finance and equip their large armies. Even more important, Toscans had become inordinately fond of kafay, the rich coffee grown by the Arridi.”

Important Country Rich Needed Red Gold Army Coffee Finance Desert Iron Reserves Items

Author:John Flanagan

“I come in a world of iron to make a world of gold.”

World Giving Gold Iron

Author:Dale Wasserman

“Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people.”

People Needs Two Lord Land Gold Chains Silver Iron Links Farmers Metals Steel Knights Merchants Tin Bronze Copper

Book:George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

“We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all.”

Persons Doe Different Eye School Form Flower Gold Excellence Various Attractive Iron Diamond Fragrance Sparkle

Book:The Life of William Wilberforce: In Five Volumes

Source: The Life of William Wilberforce: In Five Volumes

“By common consent of the nations, gold and silver are the only true measure of value. They are the necessary regulators of trade. I have myself no more doubt that these metals were prepared by the Almighty for this very purpose, than I have that iron and coal were prepared for the purposes in which they are being used.”

Used Purpose Values Nations Common Doubt Gold Trade Prepared Silver Iron Metals Almighty Consent Coal Gold And Silver Regulators

Book:Men and Measures of Half a Century; Sketches and Comments

Source: Men and Measures of Half a Century; Sketches and Comments