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• One man is a splendid fighter -- a god has made him so -- one's a dancer, another skilled at lyre and song, and deep in the next man's chest farseeing Zeus plants the gift of judgment, good clear sense. And many reap the benefits of that treasure.

  Homer

  Song, Men, Dancer

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• The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.

  Simone Weil

  Desire, Misers

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.15, Psychology Press

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• Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in a city lot convey the same lesson as the redwoods; the farmer may see in his cow-pasture what may not be vouchsafed to the scientist adventuring in the South Seas.

  Aldo Leopold

  Weed, Real, Sea

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.155, Oxford University Press

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• Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.

  Tahir Shah

  Journey, Way, Taught

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.31, Lulu.com

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• What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has been, in any moderate degree, healthy or peaceful)? That rich charm, which the least possession had for us, was in consequence of the poorness of our treasures.

  John Ruskin

  Regret, Men, Childhood

  John Ruskin “Two paths. Lectures on art, delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870. Aratra Pentelici. Time and tide. Pre-Raphaelitism. The eagle's nest. King of the Golden River. The relation between Michael Angelo and Tintoret”

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• Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.

  Ada Leverson

  People, Proportion, Vulgar

  Ada Leverson (2012). “Tenterhooks”, p.130, tredition

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• In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.

  Juana Inés de la Cruz

  Loss, Disaster, Lost

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• I'll just be the first to say that Ken [Watanabe] should be a national treasure in Japan, because he is an unbelievably talented actor. You couldn't find more of a gentleman. He's sweet, he's kind and he's extremely thoughtful in the work that he does.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Sweet, Thoughtful, Japan

  "INCEPTION Press Conference Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe, Christopher Nolan, Hans Zimmer and Emma Thomas" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

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• Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather than just another possession.

  Ernest West Basden

  Art, Talking, Special

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• Treasure Island is completed! The entire set of seventeen canvases without one break in my enthusiasm and spirit. Better in every quality than anything I ever did.

  N. C. Wyeth

  Islands, Quality, Enthusiasm

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• Christlike communications will help us to develop righteous relationships and ultimately to return to our heavenly home safely. May we treasure the divine gift of communication, and may we use it wisely to build and to assist others on this marvelous journey through mortality.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Communication, Home, Journey

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• The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.

  Saint Augustine

  Night, Riches, Toil

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 523, 1895.

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• Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the enthusiasm of the chase they enjoy it; but when they begin to look around, and think of settling down, they find that that part by which joy enters is dead in them. They have spent their lives in heaping up colossal piles of treasure, which stand, at the end, like the pyramids in the desert sands, holding only the dust of kings.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Kings, Men, Thinking

  Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.144

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• The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Tongue, Faces

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works”, p.191

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• If love be treasure, we'll be wondrous rich.

  Thomas Otway

  Love Is, Rich, Ifs

  1682 Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.

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• Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands; We make returns for every borrowed treasure.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Hands, Demand

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.571, Delphi Classics

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• You are now In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more. Yet in its depth what treasures!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sea, Ebb And Flow, Depth

  'Letter to Maria Gisborne' (1820) l. 193

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• Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today ... The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.

  William Osler

  Art, Moving, Men

  Address at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., 22 Feb. 1905

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• The cultural treasures of the past, believed to be dead, are being made to speak, in the course of which it turns out that they propose things altogether different than what had been thought.

  Hannah Arendt

  Past, Different, Speak

  "Martin Heidegger at Eighty". "Heidegger and Modern Philosophy: Critical Essays". Book by Michael Murray, p. 294, 1978.

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• What you wouldn't have suspected lives & trembles in the air. Those treasures of the day you keep just out of reach. These come & go in truckloads but no one stops to see them.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Air

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• Those who possess that treasure which no thief can take away, Which, though on suppliants freely spent, increaseth day by day, The source of inward happiness which shall outlast the earth-- To them e'en kings should yield the palm, and own their higher worth.

  Bhartrhari

  Happiness, Kings, Yield

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• I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

  Djuna Barnes

  Eye, Giving, Criticism

  "The Songs of Synge : The Man Who Shaped His Life as He Shaped His Plays". New York Morning Telegraph, February 18, 1917.

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• [As of November 17, 2006] 'Noelle's Treasure Tale' has remained at No. 3 on the New York Times children's best seller list since its October 10 release.

  Gloria Estefan

  New York, Children, October

  Reuters News Agency, November 17, 2006.

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• If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.

  Gloria Estefan

  Book, Reading, Parent

  Comment to audience at book signing at Macy's in New York City, November 21, 2006.

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• Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends: The energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the minerals treasure house of Central and Southern Africa.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Two, House, Southern

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