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Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets

Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.

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Kindness, Gold, Wages

The proof of gold is fire.

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Adversity, Fire, Gold
Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.21, Courier Corporation

Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.

Benjamin Franklin
Gold, Stones, Turns
Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.253

If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold.

Benjamin Franklin
Food, Gold, Might
Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.73, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.

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Education, Country, Gold
Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.

Benjamin Franklin
Country, Gold, Able
Nancy Spannaus, Christopher White, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas More, Henry VIII (2015). “The Political Economy of the American Revolution”, p.255, Executive Intelligence Review

What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.

Benjamin Franklin
Gold, Virtue, Diamond
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.200, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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