“Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.”
William Morley Punshon (1824–1881) English Nonconformist minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 367.
“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
Source: A Temple of Texts
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