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“As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so, in digging in one's soul for the fine gold of genius, much dullness and common-place is first brought to light.”

Firsts Soul Light Literature Common Creativity Mines Fine Genius Gold Thrown Metals Digging Rubbish Authorship Dullness Precious Metal

Book:Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Source: Pierre; or The Ambiguities

“But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them, With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to people they say Oh yes, they're the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.”

People Enough Literature Results Lord Figures Speech Gold Soldier Dear Fancy Testament Purple Old Testament Dressed Up Byron Figures Of Speech Dear Me

Book:The primrose path

Source: The primrose path

“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.”

“More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.”

Men Inspirational Has Beens Earth Funny Literature Money Taken Gold

Book:Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02

Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02

“Literature is a mountain made of gold in this poor world!”

World Made Literature Poor Mountain Gold

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.”

Giving Literature Sides Hell Path Fire Gold Painful Silver Agony Foreheads Tidy Branded Gold And Silver Tidings Hell Fire

Author:Kin Hubbard

“Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.”

Literature Strong Gold Tragedy Acid

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.”

Ifs Men Literature Beauty Gold Silver Magnet Gold And Silver

Author:Jean Paul

“Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.”

Values Literature Honor Gold Add Currents Impression Titles Silver Coins Brass

Author:Laurence Sterne

“Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.”

Knows Men Sometimes Literature Knowing Strength Weakness Gold Soil Owners Not Knowing Veins Accused

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

“Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.”

Knows Literature Appreciate Criticism Gold Weight Critics Currents Critical Scales Bars Rough Diamond Incapable Coins Labs Traders Touchstones Crucible Diamond In The Rough

Author:Joseph Joubert

“Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.”

Literature Mines Gold Intimate Intimate Relationships

Author:A. B. Yehoshua