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To purchase heaven has gold the power? Can gold remove the mortal hour? In life can love be bought with gold? Are friendship’s pleasures to be sold? No—all that’s worth a wish—a thought— Fair virtue gives, unbrib’d, unbought. Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind, Let nobler views engage thy mind.
To purchase heaven has gold the power? Can gold remove the mortal hour? In life can love be bought with gold? Are friendship’s pleasures to be sold? No—all that’s worth a wish—a thought— Fair virtue gives, unbrib’d, unbought. Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind, Let nobler views engage thy mind.
Approximate author period: c. 1746 AD · early modern
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- Samuel Johnson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1746 AD · early modern
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 255 · printed citation: Dr. Johnson · subject: GOLD
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