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"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was cleaved,
The crownless again shall be rex."
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

"The existent story of the Fleece: at that place were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were nearly to get offered upwardly as human sacrifices, when they prayed to Zeus to relieve them. And so Zeus sent this magical flight ram with gilt wool, which picked them up in Hellenic republic and carried them all the way to Colchis in Asia Minor. Well, really it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the mode, just that's not important."
"It was probably of import to her."
― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

"Ô, Sunlight! The about precious gold to exist found on Globe."
― Roman Payne

"Take your broken centre, go far into art."
― Carrie Fisher

"Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' gold
And like the sky my soul is also turnin'
Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind"
― Ray Lamontagne, God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise

"Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold."
― John Muir

"It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured mutual sense."
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,

"I mean solar day we took the children to see a goldsmith refine gold after the ancient manner of the Due east. He was sitting beside his little charcoal fire. ("He shall sit as a refiner"; the gold- or silversmith never leaves his crucible once it is on the burn.) In the red glow lay a common curved roof tile; another tile covered information technology like a hat. This was the crucible. In it was the medicine fabricated of salt, tamarind fruit and burnt brick dust, and imbedded in information technology was the gold. The medicine does its appointed work on the gold, "then the burn eats it," and the goldsmith lifts the aureate out with a pair of tongs, lets information technology cool, rubs it between his fingers, and if non satisfied puts it dorsum again in fresh medicine. This time he blows the fire hotter than it was before, and each time he puts the gold into the crucible, the rut of the fire is increased; "it could non conduct it then hot at commencement, just it can conduct it now; what would have destroyed it then helps it now." "How do you know when the gold is purified?" we asked him, and he answered, "When I can see my face in it [the liquid gold in the crucible] then it is pure."
― Amy Carmichael, Gold Cord

"Just what's worth more than gold?"

"Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in golden is not very much gold at all. Aren't you lot worth more that?"
― Terry Pratchett, Making Money

"Geometry has two keen treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first nosotros may compare to a mensurate of gilt; the second we may name a precious jewel."
― Johannes Kepler

"It is not until you rhyme with a person that makes you lot their perfect lucifer, it is when you are satisfied with each others peculiarities, and find jewels in their loopholes."
― Michael Bassey Johnson

"A secret as well long kept tin impale a soul by inches. I watched a secret near destroy a man once, the finest man always made. Such a secret is like keeping treasure in a tomb. Piffling by little, poison eats away at the aureate. Past the time the door is opened, at that place may be cypher left but dust."
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market place

"Gold is the corpse of value..."
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

"[Golden] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it downwardly, dig another hole, coffin information technology again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head."
― Warren Buffett

"If gold has been prized because information technology is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make information technology a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gilt over water is to value economic system over ecology, that which tin be locked up over that which connects all things."
― Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

"All that is gilt does non glitter; non all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither; deep roots are not reached by the frost.."
― J.R.R. Tolkien

"Silvery'southward sweetness and gold's our mother, but once you're dead they're worth less than that last shit you take as yous lie dying."
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

"A child'due south giggle is worth one hundred pounds of gold."
― Amy Leigh Mercree

"Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more than subversive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal."
― Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

"Did yous know that wherever you lot find fool'south gold, real gold exists somewhere nearby? This also goes for relationships and friendships. Existent aureate is establish in the center. For every slice of faux gold that you discard, remember that true gold isn't too far."
― Suzy Kassem, Ascent Up and Salute the Dominicus: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

"Apollinaire said a poet should exist 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, non literature. When I read a novel, I don't want credit cards; I want cash in ducats and gold doubloons."
― Roman Payne

"Let truth be told. The more than we permit water to be controlled, bottled and sold — the more nosotros sell the security of our sons, daughters and souls. He who controls the water, controls us all. Water is the true gilt."
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

"Exercise you remember nosotros're existence robbed?" I whispered.
He nodded gravely, then crawled over to my cupboard and opened information technology.
"Did yous want to infringe something more formal to wear for the robbery? I'm non sure I have anything in your size."
"Shh," he whispered. "Don't you at to the lowest degree have a tennis racket or anything?"
"You call up they came here looking for a doubles partner?"
He turned apace and gave me a look, and then whipped a Wiffle bat out of the mess.
"Wow," I said. "You lot jock-blazon people actually are single-minded, aren't you? Uh-oh, we're existence robbed. Let'due south play ball!"
"It'due south for a weapon," Carson whispered.
"You lot're gonna hit them with a Wiffle bat?"
"What else y'all got?"
"Um...A pillow"
"Exactly" ... "Stay behind me," he whispered.
"Tin I just say that I never knew this about me earlier, simply weirdly enough this whole protective he-man thing actually turns me on."
"Josie."
"What," I asked.
"Shut Upwards."
I grabbed my pillow, just in example, and then to speak, and tiptoed backside him effectually the beat-up bed. "Perhaps we should but hide in the cupboard."
He turned around, rolled his optics and kissed me. "Shh," he repeated."
― Rachel Vail, You lot, Maybe: The Profound Disproportion of Love in High School

"My communication to you, my violent friend, is to seek out aureate and sit on it."
― John Gardner, Grendel

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