Treasure Quotes - Page 14

• Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter that he was able to illicit from us, how his humor and insights - though they came from a place of pain and uncertainty - connected us and reminded us of how flawed and fragile...how human we are. How we are capable of moments of inspired transcendence and others of unspeakable despair.

  Glenn Close

  Leadership, Wisdom, Pain

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• If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures ofits inheritance on new and more stable foundations, there is indeed need for those now living fully to realize how far the decay has already progressed.

  Johan Huizinga

  War, Civilization, History

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• Mankind are always found prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice.

  David Hume

  Blood, Justice, Maintenance

  David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary”, p.28

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• The treasures of Cathay were never found.
  In this America, this wilderness
  Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound,
  The generations labor to possess
  And grave by grave we civilize the ground.

  Louis Simpson

  Lonely, Echoes, Discovery

  Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.124, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• Jesus literally sliced through years of rabbinical law and cultural norms with the extreme love of God that sees the treasure in every human heart.

  Danny Silk

  Jesus, Heart, Years

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• Iraq and Afghanistan have exacted a toll on America - in lives, treasure and standing - that it will take a generation to work through.

  Roger Cohen

  America, Iraq, Generations

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• When I was a kid, I lived in this small town way out in the country. We had three TV channels and one radio station. I couldn't even get my hands on good comic books. My aunt, who is a librarian, gave me Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House on the Prairie," and Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia." They were such incredible treasures to have in my somewhat mundane country life.

  Nick Offerman

  Country, Book, Kids

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• It's great to get insight into the era of 80's rock-n-roll via a treasure trove
  of photographs skillfully captured in front of Mark Weiss' camera lens. This
  event is the perfect time capsule for Mark's work finally being released
  upon the masses in 2012.

  Phil Collen

  Rocks, Perfect, Cameras

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• For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Weed, Art, Attitude

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.113, Shambhala Publications

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• Jesus, it is true, shows no personal interest in gain, but he does speak of treasure in heaven and even of mansions as an inducement to follow him. Is it not further true that all religions down the ages have shown a keen interest in the amassment of material goods in the real world?

  Christopher Hitchens

  Jesus, Real, Heaven

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.114, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Do not lose the treasure of your Self for the pleasure of the senses.

  Swami Parthasarathy

  Self, Pleasure, Senses

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• Turn your troubles into treasures. Learn from them and grow from them.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Trouble, Turns, Grows

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• I was off the scene for a while during the ska period and when I returned and joined the Treasure Isle studio, I came there with a different mood. The musicians picked up on that and we kept on going in that direction. The music became slower, which gave the bass player the time to play more notes. In 1965 I named it rocksteady. The first rocksteady song was 'Girl I've Got A Date'. That one was still a bit up-tempo, leaning towards ska. It turned the tide and made Treasure Isle the number one studio.

  Alton Ellis

  Girl, Song, Player

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• Empower me to be a bold participant, rather than a timid saint in waiting, in the difficult ordinariness of now; to exercise the authority of honesty, rather than to defer to power, or deceive to get it; to influence someone for justice, rather than impress anyone for gain and, by grace, to find treasures of joy, of friendship, of peace hidden in the fields of the daily you give me to plow.

  Ted Loder

  Honesty, Exercise, Giving

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• Pirate Hunters is a fantastic book, an utterly engrossing and satisfying read. It tells the story of the hunt for the rare wreck of a pirate ship, which had been captained by one of the most remarkable pirates in history. This is a real-life Treasure Island, complete with swashbuckling, half-crazy treasure hunters and vivid Caribbean settings-a story for the ages.

  Douglas Preston

  Crazy, Real, Book

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• There's nothing in the world like buried treasure-and people hungry and obsessed enough to risk their lives for it. Pirate Hunters isn't just a good story-it's a true one. Searching for the souls of its explorers, it takes you to the far tip of the plank and plunges you deep to the bottom of the ocean.

  Brad Meltzer

  Ocean, People, Pirate

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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

  Citizens, States, Human Life

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• When the bottom falls out and disappointments come, you will learn what you believe, what you love, and what you treasure.

  Ligon Duncan

  Disappointment, Believe, Fall

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• To Jane Austen, every fool is a treasure trove.

  Mason Cooley

  Fool, Austen, Jane

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• The palpable sense of mystery in the desert air breeds fables, chiefly of lost treasure. ... It is a question whether it is not better to be bitten by the little horned snake of the desert that goes sidewise and strikes without coiling, than by the tradition of a lost mine.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Air, Snakes, Desert

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.16, Rutgers University Press

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• Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators . . . she will lay bare before thy gaze the treasures hidden in the depths of her pure virgin bosom.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Depth, Helping, Thee

  H. P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Voice of the Silence”, p.13, BookRix

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• I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave.

  Dominic Cooper

  Doubt, Digging, Holes

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• A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Women, Good Woman, Wells

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• Some weigh their pleasure by their lust, Their wisdom by their rage of will, Their treasure is their only trust; And cloake'  d craft their store of skill. But all the pleasure that I find Is to maintain a quiet mind.

  Edward Dyer

  Skills, Lust, Mind

  1588 'In Praise of a Contented Mind'.

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• Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!

  Sophie Swetchine

  Daughter, Children, Tears

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