Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
~By George Sand ~
The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense.
~By Robert Walpole ~
Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
~By Camille Paglia ~
Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
~By David O. McKay ~
The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.
~By John Jakes ~
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
~By Walter Scott ~
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
~By William Penn ~
These are icons to be treasured.
~By Robert Stack ~
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
~By Emma Goldman ~
Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
~By Walter Anderson ~
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
Bear Valley is the hidden treasure of the Sierra.
~By Lloyd Bridges ~
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.
~By Andreas Capellanus ~
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
~By Buddha ~
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.
~By John Milton ~
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
~By Joseph Addison ~
I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow.
~By Robbie Williams ~
Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock.
~By Mike Huckabee ~
Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists.
~By Ethan A. Hitchcock ~
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
~By Lao Tzu ~
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
~By Elizabeth II ~
Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend. Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States senator whose influence cannot be overstated. Many have come before, and many will come after, but Ted Kennedy's name will always be remembered as someone who lived and breathed the United States Senate and the work completed within its chamber.
~By Orrin Hatch ~
The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee.
~By Akhenaton ~
If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?
~By Jim Bishop ~
The privilege of being at the university for four years is something I'll always treasure.
~By Hank Brown ~
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
~By Epictetus ~
You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.
~By Corazon Aquino ~
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
~By Johannes Kepler ~
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.
~By Rick Moody ~
The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.
~By Patty Duke ~
As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.
~By Thom Gunn ~
There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them.
~By Nora Roberts ~
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
~By Pietro Aretino ~
In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
~By Felix Adler ~
War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
~By James Madison ~
I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness.
~By George J. Mitchell ~
I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.
~By Jim Valvano ~
What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.
~By Jill Clayburgh ~
People give me things at shows-the Robot from Japan. What I would treasure the most is a little doll of the general from the movie-and if they don't make it, I'll make my own and bring it to shows and sign it.
~By Mark Goddard ~
One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.
~By Harriet Van Horne ~
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins.
~By Lope de Vega ~
A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
~By J. R. R. Tolkien ~
Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures.
~By Melina Mercouri ~
Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.
~By Rudolf Arnheim ~
I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.
~By James Levine ~
The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
~By May Sarton ~
I don't have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House.
~By Mark Goddard ~
Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
~By Felix Bloch ~
Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.
~By Adam Schiff ~
A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
~By Jesus Christ ~
When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.
~By Carol Ann Duffy ~
A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
~By Edwin Markham ~
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
~By Og Mandino ~
Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.
~By Clara Schumann ~
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
~By Walter Anderson ~
Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.
~By Ed McMahon ~
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
~By Martin Luther ~
It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.
~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
~By Lord Byron ~
I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
~By Zane Grey ~
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.
~By Prem Rawat ~
Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.
~By Christopher Dodd ~
Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times.
~By Allen Klein ~
Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
~By Leigh Hunt ~
For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
~By Lao Tzu ~
The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
May love's kindred treasure box fling your luminescent glove.
~By Isabel Yosito ~
The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.
~By Xavier Becerra ~
It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
~By Kate DiCamillo ~
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.
~By Roger Caras ~
Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.
~By Bonnie Raitt ~
People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
~By John Donne ~
The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.
~By Kylie Minogue ~
If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
~By Yakov Smirnoff ~
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
~By Henry Miller ~
I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.
~By Christina Aguilera ~
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.
~By Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
~By Akhenaton ~
I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
~By Marilyn French ~
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
~By Francis of Assisi ~
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
~By George Sand ~
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
~By Christopher Columbus ~
There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.
~By Josef Skvorecky ~
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