William Burkitt Quotes
Gifts are as gold that adorns the temple; grace is like the temple that sanctifies the gold.
Quotes to Explore
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.
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Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.
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When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.
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Even though I've won numerous titles and an Olympic gold medal, there are still so many faults in my performance that I can honestly hardly bear to watch the videos back.
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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.
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Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.
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In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
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Two gold medals and two silver, I don't think is that bad... I think I still did a pretty good job.
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I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.
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I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.
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Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
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Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.
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In every stock-jobbing swindle everyone knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbour, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.
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The true wealth of a nation consists not in the stored- up gold but in the intellectual and physical strength of its people.
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As you will come to see, much is governed by the Golden Rule: he who has the gold makes the rules.
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The value of a yellow metal (gold), originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly a chancy and irrelevant thing on which to base the value of our money and the stability of our industrial system.
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Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life have demonstrated for some time now that it is an irksome faith to live by.
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Medical Device technology is truly interdisciplinary.
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If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.
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Gifts are as gold that adorns the temple; grace is like the temple that sanctifies the gold.
