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#treasure

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...it was my father who had taught me to love books for themselves, the smell of the vellum and paper, the rare authority of the pages. "Here, do you see this marvelous book, the skins of 182 sheep," he once pronounced as he slapped his hand down on the stamped leather cover boards. "The book is a flock, a jewel, a cemetery, a lantern, a garden, a piss pot; pigments ground of precious minerals, charred bone, lamp soot, rare plants and insects. Pigments formed at the corrosion of copper plates suspended above urine.


Regina O'Melveny


#book-lovers-addiction #history #treasures #art

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.


Martin Luther


#art #god #greatest #next #noble

The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have a theory. These flashes come upon me at times... What do you think of this, Holmes? Sholto was, on his own confession, with his brother last night. The brother died in a fit, on which Sholto walked off the treasure! How's that?" "On which the dead man very considerately got up and locked the door on the inside," said Holmes.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#irony #murder #mystery #sherlock #sherlock-holmes

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.


Honore de Balzac


#been #cares #enjoyment #gains #his

If you find a man who trusts you, who isn't afraid, who sees you for who you are, and if it feels like he knows you for who it is that you simply are, and thinks all of that is beautiful; know that you have found a rare thing.


C. JoyBell C.


#men #relationships #the-nature-of-men #women-and-men #women-s-inspirational

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.


Lao Tzu


#confidence #contentment #friend #greatest #health

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.


Lao Tzu


#compassion #greatest #i #just #patience

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.


Lao Tzu


#gives #his #lay #man #more

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.


Lord Byron


#moralist #out #pleasure #pour #sages

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.


Dale Carnegie


#heart #him #man #most #road






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