salt of the earth, the
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Jones thinks borrowers are the salt of the earth, the optimists, the builders, the men who take chances and thus make the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
They recoiled with the utmost abhorrence from the pollutions of the age, and became indeed "the salt of the earth," the sole moral antiseptic to prevent the total disintegration of society.
From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by Withrow, William Henry
It was to be the salt of the earth, the light of the world, the city set on a hill, which could not be hid.
From Discipline and Other Sermons by Kingsley, Charles
His disciples are the salt of the earth, the light of the world, and a city set on a hill.
From Companion to the Bible by Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter)
She was the salt of the earth, the embodiment of nobility, the soul of truth; and not only her own state but the whole country is better because she lived.
From Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures by Bain, George W.
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