Treasure Quotes - Page 11

• when people go away, or when we leave the places we love, or something we treasure goes out of our life - I have always noticed that before it happens - this leaving, this parting - when we think about it beforehand we are overwhelmed with sadness at the loss to come. ... the most unbearable sense of loss, the worst homesickness of all, so I have found, is this loss and sickness we feel beforehand, before we ever leave home.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Home, Sadness, Loss

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• I sometimes wonder ... if the land is not destroying the people who inhabit it as the people who inhabit it are destroying the land. A magic continent, a Peculiar Treasure, stuffed with riches, millions in it are starving in the midst of plenty.

  Edna Ferber

  Land, People, Magic

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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• Strangers with puzzled looks were amazingly cooperative in letting me into their rooms with my photographic gear. They let me take down the curtains, wash the windows, and rearrange the furniture. Often, too, they expressed their desire to share their view with others, as if it were a non-depletable treasure. I liked the idea that my photographic vantage points were not solely determined by myself. They were predetermined by others, sometimes years earlier, and patiently waited for me to discover them.

  John Pfahl

  Views, Years, Ideas

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• Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge:
  If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not.
  God calleth preaching folly. Do not grudge
  To pick out treasures from an earthen pot.
  The worst speak something good. If all want sense,
  God takes a text, and preaches patience.

  George Herbert

  Judging, Want, Speak

  'The Church Porch' (1633) st. 72

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• When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand.

  Samuel Rogers

  Foundation, Care, Lasts

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• ... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it.

  George Sand

  Progress, Language, Make The Best Of It

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.139

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• Don't be afraid of your dark places. ... If you can shine a light on them, you'll find treasure there.

  Jeannette Walls

  Dark, Light, Shining

  Jeannette Walls (2014). “The Silver Star: A Novel”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.

  Lord Dunsany

  Future, Reality, May

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• I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity. Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Adversity, Artist, Lasts

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• By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Loss, Bouquets, Lost

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• Although music appeals simply to the emotions, and represents no definite images in itself, we are justified in using any language which may serve to convey to others our musical expressions. Words will often pave the way for the more subtle operations of music, and unlock the treasures which sound alone can rifle, and hence the eternal popularity of song.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Song, Expression, Musical

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1872). “Music and Morals”, p.246

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• If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Real, People, Regard

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• Thrice blessed are they whose early years are spent in some countryside. The flowering and withering of the seasons, and every exquisite sound and sight - every lane, and pasture, and green corners and gnarled hollows everywhere, make them affluent with a treasure which neither change nor chance can steal away.

  Lizette Woodworth Reese

  Blessed, Years, Sight

  Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days”

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• The more I see of Italy and her treasures, the more I see paganism in Christianity.

  Henrietta Szold

  Paganism, Christianity

  Marvin Lowenthal, Henrietta Szold (1942). “Henrietta Szold: Life and Letters”, New York : Viking Press

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• To the great pharaohs it mattered a great deal to bury their treasures in the pyramids, which they thought they would bring to the other worlds. But obviously it doesn't matter to them now. They went, the goods stayed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pyramids, Other Worlds, Matter

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• I cruise the canyon to get some breeze With Hidden Treasures up my sleeve I like the light and hate the heat But I'll lick the blood right off your street

  Katy Rose

  Hate, Light, Blood

  Song: Overdrive, Album: Because I Can

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• If they gave me a fortune,
  My treasure would be small:
  I could lose it all tomorrow
  And never mind at all.
  But if I should lose your love, dear,
  I don't know what I'd do,
  For I know I'll never find another you.

  Tom Springfield

  Mind, Would Be, Tomorrow

  "Song: 'I'll Never Find Another You'". 1965.

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• Melissa Pritchard is a treasure.

  Bradford Morrow

  Melissa

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• If you believe, if you value and treasure and revere the institution of marriage, then you should want every family unit to be really wrapped in marriage.

  Nicolle Wallace

  Believe, Want, Should

  "Supreme Court tackles gay marriage, as advocates line up for historic argument". www.foxnews.com. March 24, 2013.

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• I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Greatest Treasure, People, Twenties

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Yes, letter writing is antiquated - though there remain a few renegades who still so treasure the luxury of contemplating their lives in letters that they would rather write than call.

  Joan Frank

  Writing, Luxury, Letters

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• The heart itself is only a small vessel,
  yet dragons are there, and lions,
  there are poisonous beasts,
  and all the treasures of evil,
  there are rough and uneven roads,
  there are precipes;
  but there too is God and the angels,
  life is there, and the Kingdom,
  there too is light, and there the apostles
  and heavenly cities,
  and treasures of grace.
  All things lie within that little space.

  Macarius of Egypt

  Lying, Heart, Angel

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• Cars aren't merely modes of transit or material possessions to Texans; they are something of a state treasure. We share a special, almost religious attachment to the automobile, rooted, I suppose, in our mythological relationship to the horse, our economic underpinnings in the oil industry, and the inescapable fact that to get anywhere in this state, you have to cover a lot of ground.

  Jim Atkinson

  Religious, Horse, Attachment

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• Wine lovers know that putting some effort into understanding and appreciating wine pays big dividends. Skillful tasting unlocks wine's treasures. It adds an extra dimension to the basic routines of eating and drinking, turning a daily necessity into a celebration of life.

  Marvin Shanken

  Drinking, Wine, Appreciate

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• As a child, everyone dreams of finding treasure. There's romance and drama. But as an adult most people aren't going to spend their lives trying to find it.

  E. Lee Spence

  Dream, Children, Drama

  "Diving Into Sunken-Treasure Investing" by Shelly K. Scwartz, www.cnbc.com. October 18, 2010.

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