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“Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead, and with their wings exceedingly small. He did not, and that ought to show something. It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle.”

Made Shows Order Turns Lord Ignorance Ought Bird Gold Miracle Wings Bones Flesh Refuge Veins Shields

Author:Galileo Galilei

“I'm driven by history and our past. That's why I work in gold. It's in your veins. We've been lusting after gold since the beginning of time. God, glory, and gold.”

Past Glory Gold Driven Lust Our Past Veins

Author:Waris Ahluwalia

“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

“Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted.”

Found Voice Advantage Gold Discovering Exhausted Veins Specialty

Author:W. P. Kinsella

“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)

“It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.”

Knows Men Sometimes Strength Weakness Gold Soil Owners Veins Weakness Of Character

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

“See the hand that nursed the serpent. The fine hasped pipes of her fingerbones. The skin bewenned and speckled. The veins are milkblue and bulby. A thin gold ring set with diamonds. That raised the once child's heart of her to agonies of passion before I was. Here is the anguish of mortality. Hopes wrecked, love sundered. See the mother sorrowing. How everything that I was warned of's come to pass.”

Heart Children Hands Mother Passion Fine Gold Skins Raised Rings Mortality Nurse Diamond Agony Anguish Veins Pipe Serpent

Book:Suttree

Source: Suttree

“Yo, you 14-carat gold slum computer wizard, Tappin' inside my rap vein causes blizzards!”

Causes Computer Gold Hip Hop Rap Veins Wizards Slums Blizzard

Author:Ghostface Killah

“When John Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my South End studio at five o'clock on a May morning in 1916, neither of us had any inkling of its great possibilities, nor of the thorny yet successful road it was to take. As so often happens in life, we had stumbled across a vein of gold without knowing it.”

May Ends Happens Morning Knowing Successful Five Possibility Gold South Studios Clock Veins

Author:George Grosz