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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.


Abraham Lincoln

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Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity
SENECA Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
SENECA Gold time better than gold rolex
KARIM FDHILA My favorite thought about Abraham Lincoln is he believed in two things: loving one another and worki...
MARIO CUOMO Rail-splitting produced an unparalleled president in Lincoln. But gold hasn't produced even a good A...
MARK TWAIN A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold...
BIBLE Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men. [Lat., Ignis aurum probat, misera fortes viros.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Men have a touchstone whereby to try gold, but gold is the touchstone whereby to try men.
THOMAS FULLER Love in your heart is better than gold in your hands.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO But what's worth more than gold?"

"Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heav...
TERRY PRATCHETT The fruit of wisdom is better than gold
SUNDAY ADELAJA There are good reasons to expect gold to keep its momentum on the way higher. If you look at the fun...
FREDERIC PANIZZUTTI To measure prices by a currency that is called by the same names as gold, but that is really inferio...
LYSANDER SPOONER Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.
UNKNOWN We have done better owning gold than shares.
JAY TAYLOR Better a heart of gold and an empty pocket than an empty heart and a pocket of gold.
RAIN BOJANGLES It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
THOMAS FULLER The huge pool of global liquidity out there has not found a better place to rush into, and is enchan...
JON NADLER If Mr. Fantastic and Professor X had a baby, there would be tons of questions, but also it would be ...
DANIEL O'BRIEN Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.
JIM BISHOP Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not g...
LEO TOLSTOY Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not g...
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not ...
LEO TOLSTOY gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold"
'Is there a chorus?'
"Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold".' ...
TERRY PRATCHETT With many of the factors that were considered bullish for gold still in place, the risks for gold ar...
ALAN WILLIAMSON Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.
YIDDISH PROVERB It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
JONATHAN SWIFT More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the h...
BIBLE Gold has regained its status as an investment vehicle. It's one of the better performing assets in 2...
FRANK LESH Ambition devours gold and drinks blood and climbs so high by other men's heads, that at the leng...
THOMAS WENTWORTH, 1ST EARL OF STRAFFORD A beautiful woman without good character is like a pig with a gold ring in its nose.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Gold Beach looked better than they did the first two games.
JOE MORIN Value of gold is understood in crisis than on a occasion. But the gold plays both the role reminding...
SANTOSH AVVANNAVAR Any medal would be good. A big gold one even better.
SHAUN WHITE We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and...
BRIGHAM YOUNG Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dr...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver!
DENNIS ALEJO How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver!
DENNIS ALEJO Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.
BOB MARLEY Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold...
BOB MARLEY Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.
BOB MARLEY Early morning hath gold in its mouth.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN You had the gold, gold, gold all but in your hand. By your folly you have disappointed everyone at h...
BOB COSTAS The world's central banks have certainly decided U.S. Treasury notes are a better long term investme...
WAYNE ANGELL Earth is dearer than gold
ESTONIAN PROVERB By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influence...
SEXTUS PROPERTIUS If gold knew what gold is, gold would get gold I wis.
GEORGE HERBERT Gold lost some of its impetus with the release of lower than expected US trade figures and this prom...
ALAN WILLIAMSON If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.
SAM WATERSTON More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth it self
NAPOLEON HILL The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
PROVERB The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
GERMAN PROVERB Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.
SARAH VOWELL It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostl...
SAINT AMBROSE Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
BOB MARLEY There is nothing better than to value the peace of mind as much as the finest gold...
PHILIP T. M. Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
MARTHA GRAHAM Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
SENECA Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Go...
ABRAHAM COWLEY O earth, so full of dreary noises! / O men, with wailing in your voices! / O delvèd gold, the waile...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER The world did not appreciate Abraham Lincoln until he died. His great figure has been looming higher...
CHARLES JEFFERSON For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
SIRACH For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
GEORGE SANTAYANA I have no silver, nor gold to give,but i have mountains of quotes to give freely & you know what,my ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.
ALLAN SLOAN If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We are looking for a better result than last time and hoping for at least two gold medals. But it is...
LI HUA More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
NAPOLEON HILL The coming of institutional investors in the gold market is certainly a boost to its development, bu...
CUI LIN Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with A...
PAULA NELSON Oh better than the minting of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing.
SARA TEASDALE Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!
THOMAS HOOD Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON That is gold which is worth gold.
GEORGE HERBERT The wild mustard in Southern California is like that spoken of in the New Testament. . . . Its gold ...
HELEN HUNT JACKSON For gold in phisik is a cordial; Therefore he lovede gold in special.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER U.S. markets were firmer, gold was a bit better, commodities are OK, so all is forgiven.
LEIGH GARDNER Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are crea...
SIDNEY SHELDON The father-mother family with two children isolated in a city flat is already insufficient.
KONRAD LORENZ In the course of evolution, it constantly happens that, independently of each other, two different f...
KONRAD LORENZ We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat &...
LISA SEE It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, j...
DAN O'BRIEN Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's...
PAULA NELSON Words are made of silver, but silence is made of gold.
PORTUGUESE PROVERB Since gold prices are stuck in that range, gold-mining stocks are not going to move very much either...
JOE ISMAIL Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
PROVERB Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
LATIN PROVERB Gold is tested by fire, man by gold
CHINESE PROVERBS I cannot do this to myself anymore. Either I'm in or I'm not but I will not feel like I'm Nothing wh...
KELLY KNIGHT Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by...
MIKE HARDING Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
THOMAS HOOD Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
THOMAS HOOD As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
GORE VIDAL George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roo...
ROBERT DALLEK Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remem...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The President to-night has a dream: He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who h...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advan...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and e...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him ru...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be p...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN It is the eternal struggle between these two principles -- right and wrong. They are the two princip...
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