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“The wise man knoweth where to stop, as he runneth in the race of fortune, For experience of old hath taught him, that happiness lingered midway; And many in hot pursuit have hasted to the goal of wealth, But have lost, as they ran, those apples of gold--the mind and the power to enjoy it.”

Men Mind Lost Enjoy Goal Wealth Race Wise Taught Gold Hot Fortune Pursuit Ran Apples Midway

Book:Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments. 1st and 2d Series in One Volume

Source: Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments. 1st and 2d Series in One Volume

“Some of the gold possessed by the Romans is doubtless mixed with what we now possess; and some small part of it will be handed down as long as the human race exists.”

Humans Long Race Gold Human Race Possessed Small Parts

Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.”

Men Black White Pay Race Blood Dog Gold

Book:Conan the Barbarian

Source: Conan the Barbarian

“Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

“It's now come out just before his record-breaking 100-meter dash, gold medalist Usain Bolt ate at McDonald's. Apparently he timed his meal so when the race started he would have exactly 9.63 seconds to get to a toilet.”

Funny Race Records Gold Meals Seconds Olympics Toilets Bolts Mcdonalds Meter London Olympics Records Breaking

Author:Conan O'Brien

“I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every race and clime; that finds with joy the grain of gold in every creed, and floods with light and love the germs of good in every soul.”

World Soul Light Joy Religion Church Race Gold And Love Claims Grain Creeds Flood Germs Aisle Light And Love

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“I like weather better than climate. The dry season is a gold vacuum; but the rainy season has change, which is weather. And while climate may create a race, weather creates the temper and sensibility of the individual.”

May Individual Race Gold Seasons Climate Weather Dry Temper Sensibility Vacuums Rainy Rainy Season

Author:Gertrude Diamant

“I went at each race like there was a gold medal at stake. It wasn't like I ran one hard, then slacked off the next. Every time was my best effort. I didn't know how to go at it any other way.”

Knows Way Hard Next Effort Race Know How Gold Ran Stakes Medal Gold Medals Best Effort

Book:Staying the Course: A Runner's Toughest Race

Source: Staying the Course: A Runner's Toughest Race

“If people are looking at me in my hometown, then every woman that races against me in the peloton is as well. I can tell you, every one of them now believes that they can do it. When I go to a Cascade or Nature Valley and they race against me, the girls that are say 30 seconds from me at the races are all of a sudden saying 'I'm 30 seconds from gold I mean why can't I do this.'”

People Ifs Believe Wells Mean I Can Girl Can Do Race Gold Seconds Valleys Hometown Cascade

Author:Kristin Armstrong

“I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul capable of intense pleasures. It throws off bursts of fire and the sparkle of precious stones. It is redolent of the rouge of courtesans, the games of the circus, the panting of the gladiators, the spring of wild beasts, the consuming in flames of races exhausted by their capacity for sensation, as the tramp of an invading army sounds.”

“The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.”

Humans Desire Race Gold Universal Instinct Human Race Rooted

Book:Battle for Investment Survival

Source: Battle for Investment Survival

“Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold.”

World May Persons Race Accepting Gold Borders Silver Commodity Gold And Silver National Borders

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces, And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust, too.”

Men Kind Done Faces Race Worst Flower Gold Horse Ugly Cups Things Done Ugly Face

Book:John Masefield's letters from the front, 1915-1917

Source: John Masefield's letters from the front, 1915-1917