"A grain of gold will gild a great……" — Henry David Thoreau

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• Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless… — Rebecca West
• The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate;… — Samuel Johnson
• The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all… — James Russell Lowell
• No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless… — John T. Flynn
• Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to… — William Shakespeare
• No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and… — H. L. Mencken
• I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night. — John Dryden
• Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds… — Susanna Moodie
• Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
• WhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay. — Michael Drayton
• It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful? — Mahatma Gandhi
• My favorite way to cook trout is whole, bone-in, on the grill. The fish are stuffed with sliced lemons and… — Tom Douglas

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