Gold Quote by Chilon of Sparta Download Open image “As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.” — Chilon of Sparta ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gold Gold Gold Gold Tries Men Touchstone Tries Touchstones Tries Gold Tries Men Try me Trying
Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth from appearances.… — John Locke Copy Share Image
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The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries? — George Meredith Copy Share Image
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than the gold taken from Earth. — Sonny Long Copy Share Image
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“men are developed the same way gold is mined. When gold is mined, several tons of dirt must be moved to get an ounce… — Renee Swope Copy Share Image
A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous. — Chilon of Sparta Copy Share Image
Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life. — Chilon of Sparta Copy Share Image
If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one. — Chilon of Sparta Copy Share Image
What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury. — Chilon of Sparta Copy Share Image
If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it. — Chilon of Sparta Copy Share Image
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Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in… — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the vision you wake up… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
![“men are developed the same way gold is mined. When gold is mined, several tons of dirt must be moved to get an ounce of gold, but one doesn’t go into the mine looking for dirt, one goes in looking for gold, and the more he looks for the more he finds.”[9] Zig Ziglar used this story as an…” quote by Renee Swope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9df/renee-swope-10919_zig-ziglar_men-are-developed-the-same-way-gold-is-m_1819186.jpg)
