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• The power of reading a great book is that you start thinking like the author. For those magical moments while you are immersed in the forests of Arden, you are William Shakespeare; while you are shipwrecked on Treasure Island, you are Robert Louis Stevenson; while you are communing with nature at Walden, you are Henry David Thoreau. You start to think like they think, feel like they feel, and use imagination as they would. Their references become your own, and you carry these with you long after you've turned the last page.

  Tony Robbins

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• Is it your thought that I despise some of these, while I love the others? I tell you, I despise nothing. None of it is repulsive to Me. It is life, and life is the gift; the unspeakable treasure; the holy of holies.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Life Is

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.54, Penguin

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• Home may be near, Home may be far - But it is anywhere love And a few plain household treasures are.

  Grace Noll Crowell

  Women, Home, May

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• ... what will not the heart endure ere it will voluntarily surrender the hoarded treasure of its love to the cold dictates of reason or the stern voice of duty!

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Heart, Voice, Cold

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.146

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• Oh youth, youth! You don't worry about anything; you seem to possess all the treasures of the universe--even sorrow gives you pleasure, even grief suits you.... And perhaps the whole secret of your charm lies not in your ability to do everything, but in your ability to think that you will do everything.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Lying, Grief, Thinking

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• Time hides no treasures; we want not its then, but its now.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Want

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.108, Xist Publishing

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• But as the priceless treasure too frequently hides at the bottom of well, it needs some courage to dive for it, especially as he that does so will be likely to incur more scorn and obloquy for the mud and water into which he has ventured to plunge, than thanks for the jewel he procures; as like in manner, she who undertakes the cleansing of a careless bachelor's apartment will be liable to more abuse for the dust she raises than commendation for the clearance she effects.

  Anne Bronte

  Dust, Jewels, Water

  Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte (2014). “The Complete Novels Of The Bronte Sisters: Seven-Book Bundle”, p.243, Harper Collins

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• Prayer is so necessary, and the source of so many blessings, that he who has discovered the treasure cannot be prevented from having recourse to it, whenever he has an opportunity.

  Francois Fenelon

  Prayer, Blessing, Opportunity

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.125, Lulu.com

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• A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure.

  Saadi

  Beauty, Jewels, Good Woman

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• The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.

  Saadi

  Wisdom, Men, Sea

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• Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust.

  Willis Regier

  Book, Dust, Encounters

  Willis Goth Regier (2010). “Quotology”, p.17, U of Nebraska Press

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• Cracked pots allow the treasure to shine forth.

  James N. Watkins

  Encouragement, Shining, Pot

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• Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field; wherever a mine yields its treasure; wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market; wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds; even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.

  James A. Garfield

  Lonely, Yield, Sea

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• Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe. Astonish Me is a treasure of small surprises.

  Maria Semple

  Fearless, Surprise, Breathe

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• The Portuguese, Dutch and English have been for a long time year after year, shipping home the treasures of India in their big vessels. We Germans have been all along been left to watch it. Germany would do likewise, but hers would be treasures of spiritual knowledge.

  Heinrich Heine

  Spiritual, Home, Years

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• Nature had gathered her choicest treasures , to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her

  John Muir

  Lovers, Communion, Draws

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.589, The Mountaineers Books

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• Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure.

  Susan Sontag

  Patient, Regard, Has Beens

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• More than any gift or toy, ornament of tree, let us resolve that this Christmas shall be, like that first Christmas, a celebration of interior treasures.

  Ronald Reagan

  Tree, Firsts, Toys

  Reagan, Ronald (1986). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1984”, p.1900, Best Books on

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• Some of the same politicians and pundits that are so quick to reject the possibility of a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear program are the same folks who were so quick to go to war in Iraq and said it would take a few months.

  Barack Obama

  War, Blood, Iran

  "Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee joins Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room". cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. July 21, 2015.

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• There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.

  John Henry Newman

  Years, Remuneration, Labor

  Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press (2009). “The Idea of a University”, p.99, Aeterna Press

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• For a significant man
  woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Men, Iron

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• We are here to spend ourselves on others; for each person is a great treasure.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Persons

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• Great master Lao Tzu says that 'The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.' Giving is indeed a very good source of happiness! One of the best treasures a man can give to someone is a good and sound idea; because birds can ascend into the sky only with wings, and men, only with good and sound ideas!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, Men, Sky

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• I observed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love [as a POW] and I will always treasure that memory above all others.

  John McCain

  Memories, War, Compassion

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• The greatest treasures of your life are associated with the people you love and who love you in return.

  Brian Tracy

  Love You, Greatest Treasure, People

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