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Speech is silver, silence is golden.

Thomas Carlyle / Philosopher
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.

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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Thomas Carlyle Philosopher

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Thomas Carlyle Philosopher

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

Thomas Carlyle Philosopher

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Thomas Carlyle Philosopher

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

John Burroughs Essayist

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

Adam Smith Philosopher

The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.

Anais Nin Author

Were all the worshippers of the gold calf to memorialize me and request a restoration of the deposits I would cut my right hand from my body before I would do such an act. The gold calf may be worshipped by others but as for myself I serve the Lord.

Andrew Jackson 7th U.S. President

I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-

Anne Carson Poet

I'm a bit of a traditionalist; the ballroom is all about tails and I never mess about with that. But for the Latin you can have a bit fun: tight trousers, gold shirt open to my waist, be a bit ridiculous.

Anton Du Beke Ballroom Dancer

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