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“Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom”

Fighting Force Money Silver

Book:Hesperides Or Works Both Human and Divine

Source: Hesperides Or Works Both Human and Divine

“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

“I never thought that the possession of money would make me feel rich: it often does seem to have an opposite effect. But then, I have never had the opportunity of knowing, by experience, how it does make one feel. It is something to have been spared the responsibility of taking charge of the Lord's silver and gold.”

Feels Doe Has Beens Seems Opportunity Money Responsibility Lord Knowing Rich Effects Gold Opposites Possession Silver Taking Charge

Author:Lucy Larcom

“There is probably not more than one hundred dollars in cash in circulation today. That is, if you were to call in all the bills and silver and gold in the country at noon tomorrow and pile them on the table, you would find that you had just about one hundred dollars, with perhaps several Canadian pennies and a few peppermint Life Savers.”

Ifs Country Today Money Tomorrow Hundred Gold Tables Bills Dollars Finance Silver Cash Pennies Noon Circulation Peppermint

Book:Love Conquers All

Source: Love Conquers All

“Gold and silver are but merchandise, as well as cloth or linen; and that nation that buys the least, and sells the most, must always have the most money.”

Wells Nations Money Gold Trade Sells Silver Merchandise Gold And Silver Linen

Book:Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son

Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son

“Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.”

Country Money Gold Silver Civilized Saving Money

Book:Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition

Source: Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition

“Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.”

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.”

Values Poor Money Comfort Lows Labor Gold Twenties Arise Silver Pounds Guinea Highs And Lows Intrinsic Value

Author:Bernard de Mandeville

“I went to America in the winter of 1872-73, authorised to secure, if I could, the passage of a bill demonetising silver. It was in the interest of those I represented - the governors of the Bank of England - to have it done. By 1873, gold coins were the only form of coin money.”

Ifs Done America Form Interest Money Gold England Bills Winter Secure If I Could Silver Passages Governors Coins Bankers Bankers And Banks Gold Coins

Author:Ernest Seyd