Precious Quotes
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How passionately she longed to be important to somebody again - not important on platforms, not important as an asset in an organisation, but privately important, just to one other person, quite privately, nobody else to know or notice. It didn't seem much to ask in a world so crowded with people, just to have one of them, only one out of all the millions to oneself. Somebody who needed one, who thought of one, who was eager to come to one - oh, oh how dreadfully one wanted to be precious.
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“Books are precious things and cannot be selected like tinned peas in Tesco.”
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... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, – it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.
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You're terribly selfish, you know. I've loved you so long, and it was never dear or precious to you. I might as well have not loved you at all.
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We had one thing in common – we were in love. But love is just a gift, and it doesn't answer everything and it's like a precious plant that you have to nurture and look after and all that.
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The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
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It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious.
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But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it?
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For every man, peace of soul is precious.
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The things that are most precious to us are sometimes the most secret.
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Oh how warm it makes one to know that there is one person in the world to whom one is everything. A lover is the most precious, the most marvelous possession.
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To be without health insurance in this country means to be without access to medical care. But health is not a luxury, nor should it be the sole possession of a privileged few. We are all created b'tzelem elohim - in the image of God - and this makes each human life as precious as the next. By 'pricing out' a portion of this country's population from health care coverage, we mock the image of God and destroy the vessels of God's work.
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Time did not mean anything to those who had too much of it, but it was even more precious once it was limited.
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The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
