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 GOLD

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Oh, meet is the reverence unto Bacchus paid! We will praise him still in the songs of our fatherland, We will pour the sacred wine, the chargers lade, And the victim kid shall unresisting stand, Led by his horns to the altar, where we turn The hazel spits while the dripping entrails burn. Vergil—Georgics. Bk. II. St. 17. L. 31. H. W. Preston's trans. GOLD | seealso = (See also {{sc|Bribery, Monet) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 5 | text = You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns—you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold! W. J. Bryan. Democratic Convention. July 9, 1896. A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts. | author = Byron | work = The Vision of Judgment. St. 43. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 325 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And yet he hadde "a thombe of gold" pardee. Chaucer—Canterbury Tales. Prologue. L. 563. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 325 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Every honest miller has a golden thumb. Chaucer—Canterbury Tales. Old saying, referred to No. 7. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 325 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = For gold in phisik is a cordial; Therefore he lovede gold in special. Chaucer—Canterbury Tales. Prologue. ] 443. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 325 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create. Cowley—Anacreontics. Gold. L. 17. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = What female heart can gold despise? What cat's averse to fish? Gray—On the Death of a Favorite Cat. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 325 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = That is gold which is worth gold. | author = Herbert | work = Jacula Prudentum. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 325 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold. Hood—Miss Kilmansegg. Her Moral. u Aurum per medios ire satellites Et perrumpere amat saxa potentius Ictu fulmineo. GOLD Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break. Horace—Ode XVI. Bk. III. L. 12. Francis' trans. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 325 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The" last corruption of degenerate man. | author = Samuel Johnson | work =  Irene. Act I. Sc. 1.  | author =  | work =  | place =  | note =  | topic =  | page = 325 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = L'or donne aux plus laids certain charme pour plaire, Et que sans lui le reste est une triste affaire. Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair. Molibre—Sganarelle. I. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 325 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Aurea nunc vere sunt saecula; plurimus auro Venit honos; auro conciliatur amor. Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured. Ovid—Ars AmatoHa. Bk. II. 277. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 325 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Not Philip, but Philip's gold, took the cities of Greece. Plutarch—Life of Pavlus JEmilius. Quoted as a common saying. It refers to Philip II. of Macedon. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 325 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows. | author = Pope | work = Moral Essay. Ep. III. L. 21. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 325 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = L'or est une chimere. Gold is a vain and foolish fancy. Scribe and Delavigke—Robert le Diable. Ch. I. Sc. 7. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 325 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry: For this they have engrossed and pil'd up The canker'd heaps of strange-achieved gold; For this they have been thoughtful to invest Their sons with arts and martial exercises. Henry IV. Pt. II. Act IV. Sc. 5. L. 66. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 325 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Thou that so stoutly hast resisted me, Give me thy gold, if thou hast any gold; For I have bought it with an hundred blows. Henry VI. Pt. III. Act II. Sc. 5. L. 79. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 325 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, The signet of its all-enslaving power Upon a shining ore, and called it gold; Before whose image bow the vulgar great, The vainly rich, the miserable proud, The mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, And with blind feelings reverence the power That grinds them to the dust of misery. But in the temple of their hireling hearts Gold is a living god, and rules in scorn All earthly things but virtue. Shelley—Queen Mob. Pt. V. St. 4. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 325 }}