Art Quote by Ivan Panin

If gold must be gold, it must pass through the furnace.

— T. B. Joshua

As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the…

— Adi Shankara

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

— Antoine Rivarol

What well-advised ear regards What earth can say? Thy words are gold, but thy rewards Are painted clay.

— Francis Quarles

“One day we took the children to see a goldsmith refine gold after the ancient manner of the East. He was sitting beside his…

— Amy Carmichael

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

— George Santayana

If gold ruste, what shall iren do?

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Set any one to talk about himself, instead of about other people, and you will have a seam of the precious mental metal opened…

— George MacDonald

Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.

— Matthew Henry

... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay…

— Margaret Deland

“Petulance is not wit, although a few grains of wit may be found in petulance; quartz is not gold, although a few grains of…

— Walter Savage Landor