For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.
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