silver

You all have a gift. It's free. It's the gift of song.

One day we took the children to see a goldsmith refine gold after the ancient manner of the East. He was sitting beside his little charcoal fire. ("He shall sit as a refiner"; the gold- or silversmith never leaves his crucible once it is on the fire.) In the red glow lay a common curved roof tile; another tile covered it like a lid. This was the crucible. In it was the medicine made of salt, tamarind fruit and burnt brick dust, and imbedded in it was the gold. The medicine does its appointed work on the gold, "then the fire eats it," and the goldsmith lifts the gold out with a pair of tongs, lets it cool, rubs it between his fingers, and if not satisfied puts it back again in fresh medicine. This time he blows the fire hotter than it was before, and each time he puts the gold into the crucible, the heat of the fire is increased; "it could not bear it so hot at first, but it can bear it now; what would have destroyed it then helps it now." "How do you know when the gold is purified?" we asked him, and he answered, "When I can see my face in it [the liquid gold in the crucible] then it is pure.

As the sun sinksIt casts that silver bridgeAcross the lake

Avoid trying to win tough battles on the silver platter. If the struggle is tough the success is sweet.

The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that everything must end, the music, ourselves, the moon, everything. That if you get to the heart of things you find sadness for ever and ever, everywhere; but a beautiful silver sadness, like a Christ face.

She made beauty all round her. When she trod on mud, the mud was beautiful; when she ran in the rain, the rain was silver. When she picked up a toad - she had the strangest and, I thought, unchanciest love for all manner of brutes - the toad became beautiful.

Women were gravitating towards him from all directions like a planetary orbit.(Zoe on meeting Justus)

Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' 'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' 'The dog did nothing in the night-time.''That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.

People who achieve marvelously in critical challenges are commended than people who achieve same things on the silver platter.

O Heavenly Children, God has blessed you all with many treasures that only the most purehearted already know. His fruitful garden is vast and without measure, and in your own very bodies, He has planted metals of copper, silver and gold.

Shocked to see me?" I drawl at them, chuckling at the horrific joke.

Where did you meet?_ he pressed on.I shrugged and considered a little rephrasing. __ was out for a run.___rom who?__ leaned back to take a long, very long, slow sip of that beer.Knox leaned forward. __ think we__e both bullsh*tting here, you ever play that card game?___ith my grandma, every Sunday after church.

We served Twinkies and Sno Balls at our wedding. We put them on silver trays so they looked elegant - but they were the real deal!

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.