Gold Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gold Knows Mankind Nature of man Suffering Want
“I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue. — Plato Copy Share Image
“more brave in despising gold as yet undiscovered, and so best situated while hidden in the earth, than in forcing it out for the… — Horace Copy Share Image
Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth it self” — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is other currency. Most countries hold reserves and the reserves are other currencies. If you are a backing up the euro with the dollar, what's backing up the dollar? I don't think it is going to go… — Peter Schiff Copy Share
With every product, the delta between the brand and the reality determines its power over the minds of consumers, and with Trump, that delta… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky. — Rabindranath Tagore 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 with in the morning, and it's the last thing you picture before you fall asleep. Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail: You… — James C. Collins Copy Share
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
All the people in Korea are cheering me like I'm a gold medalist or something, so I have a responsibility to my country. — PSY Copy Share Image
All metallics are neutrals. So it is absolutely fine to mix gold and silver; you just want it to look like it has purpose. — Stacy London Copy Share Image
