Treasures Quotes
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Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.
Lao Tzu
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I have three treasures which I hold and keep. The first is mercy; the second is economy. The third is daring not to be ahead of others. From mercy comes courage; from economy comes generosity; From humility comes leadership.
Lao Tzu
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Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
Joseph Stalin
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I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Designed in the neoclassical style by Marcel Dourgnon, the dusky-rose-colored Egyptian Museum of Antiquities, at Tahrir Square, was the first purpose-built museum edifice in the world. In 1902, the thousands of artifact treasures, spanning five thousand years of Egyptian dynastic history, were transferred there from the palace of Ismail Pasha in Giza, where they had been displayed for more than a decade.
Eric Van Lustbader
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Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?
Marilyn Monroe
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The greatest treasures were most often guarded by the slyest and cruellest dragons.
Adam Nevill
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All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are all intended, not to carve our work in snow that will melt, but each and all of us to be continually rolling a great white gathering snow-ball, higher and higher, larger and larger, along the Alps of human power.
John Ruskin
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Poetry is, above all, a singing art of natural and magical connection because, though it is born out of one's person's solitude, it has the ability to reach out and touch in a humane and warmly illuminating way the solitude, even the loneliness, of others. That is why, to me, poetry is one of the most vital treasures that humanity possesses; it is a bridge between separated souls.
Brendan Kennelly
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He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity.
Randy Alcorn
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This is life. It is everywhere, and it is here for the taking. I am alive and I know this, now, in a more profound way than when I am doing anything else. These sights are ephemeral, fleeting treasures that have been offered to me and to me alone. No other person in the history of the world, anywhere in all of time and space, has been granted this gift to be here in my place. And I am privileged, through the camera, to take this moment away with me. That is why I photograph.
Bill Jay
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When you leave this world, will you be known as one who accumulated treasures on earth that you couldn't keep? Or will you be recognized as one who invested treasures in heaven that you couldn't lose?
Randy Alcorn
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Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.
Lao Tzu
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Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed.
Rebecca Wells
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What treasures lay hidden between the lines where few tread? What awaits those who step out into the wild?
Cory Trepanier
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Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase.
Charles Dickens
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Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
Miguel de Cervantes
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In our lifetimes, we can only know a small portion of what exists. The world is endless and its treasures are inexhaustible.
Barry Webster
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Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times past become time present, and the whole pageantry of the world's history moves in solemn procession before our eyes, -these were to visit the firesides of the humble and lavish the treasures of the intellect upon the poor.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.
Roger Caras