Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Gold
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The proof of gold is fire.
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The early morning has gold in its mouth.
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If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold.
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The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.
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Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.
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What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.
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Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.
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A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.
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I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.
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Benjamin Franklin
- Born: January 17, 1706
- Died: April 17, 1790
- Occupation: Founding Father of the United States