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"Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.– Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all others she sets us devote; They with the gold to give doled him our silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed."
"It is silver that can pride itself as the overlay of the gods."
"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver."
"The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold."
"After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron."
"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver."
"First of all the Georgian Silver goes, and then all that nice furniture that used to be in the salon. Then the Canalettos go."
"If a man bring to London an ounce of Silver out of the Earth in Peru in the same time that he can produce a bushel of Corn, then one is the natural price of the other."
"Hi-ho, Silver, away!"
"Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver."
"Silver and gold have In one; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk."
"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver."
"And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver."
"The sayings of the Lord are pure; they are like silver refined in an earthen furnace, purified seven times."