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What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness and love, and all the nameless sympathies of our nature - these are the only objects worth being attached to.

— William Godwin

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Rose McIver

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

— Robert Kiyosaki

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

— Plautus

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.

— Daisaku Ikeda

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

— Emily Bronte

I don't like precious things; I don't spend thousands of dollars on jewellery for myself. I like going into a junk store and finding something for five dollars. That's my style.

— Erin Wasson

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.

— Sophocles

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

— Juvenal

✗Opposing Perspectives

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

— Christopher Columbus