Source: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 93. Compare: "Jupiter himself was turned into a satyr, a shepherd, a bull, a swan, a golden shower, and what not for love", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii, sec ii, mem. i, subs. 1.
“When leprosy patients touched the soil, they transformed it into gold, but the politicians did that and made it into dirt.”
His analogy between Indian politicians and his leprosy patients.
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Bill Haywood (1869–1928) Labor organizer
Haywood, William D. The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood. New York: International Publishers, 1929, p. 171.
“Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1643), Introduction. Compare: "The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before", Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning, Book ii (1605)
“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.
“It is easy to spread the sails to propitious winds, and to cultivate in different ways a rich soil, and to give lustre to gold and ivory, when the very raw material itself shines.”
Facile est ventis dare vela secundis,
Fecundumque solum varias agitare per artes,
Auroque atque ebori decus addere, cum rudis ipsa
Materies niteat.
Book III, line 26.
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Baba Amte (1914–2008) Indian freedom fighter, social worker
His reaction after he had given away his wealth and legal career and had set up a work camp and started living with common people with his family when he had met a dying leper on the road, pages=6-7
Baba Amte: A Vision of New India
William Winwood Reade (1838–1875) British historian
Source: The Martyrdom of Man (1872), Chapter IV, "Intellect", pp. 383-4.
“1154. Content is the Philosopher’s Stone, that turns all it touches into Gold.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1758) : Content is the Philosopher’s Stone, that turns all it touches into Gold.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)