"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."

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"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."

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"I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

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"I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude."

Adelbert von Chamisso, German Poet

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"I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch."

Woody Allen, American Director

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"Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold."

Alain de Lille, French Theologian

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"As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess."

Andy Hertzfeld, American Inventor

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"O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!"

Virgil, Roman Poet

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"You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful."

Earl Scruggs, American Musician

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"Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?"

Eric Heiden, American Athlete

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"The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal."

Mitch Gaylord, American Athlete

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"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected."

Faith

"That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner."

Mortality

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

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"The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity."

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"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."

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"Sir a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to find it done at all."

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"It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness."

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"A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge."

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"No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves."

Relationship

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."

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