It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.
In a private room he showed me the first specimens of gold, that is he was not certain if it was gold or not, but he thought it might be; immediately I made the proof and found that it was gold.
In America, if you are a landowner, you own the minerals vertically underneath your plot. So if there is shale, you get a share.
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Say a piece of pottery is broken, and it's fixed, and they use gold in the adhesive and in the sealant. It becomes more precious than it was before it was broken in the first place.
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.
Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
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.