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#treasures

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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.


Henry Miller


#develop #forget #interest #interesting #interesting people

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.


Confucius


#loyalty #precious-things #treasures #value #virtues

On the dresser was a row of blue-and-white jars that weren't very useful for anything. They'd been left to her mother by an elderly aunt, and she was proud of them because they looked nice but were completely useless. There was little room on the farm for useless things that looked nice, so they were treasured.


Terry Pratchett


#useless #men

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.


Oscar Wilde


#rich

...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

Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock.


Mike Huckabee


#being there #every #human #human being #inside

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.


Bryant H. McGill


#amazingly #familiar #get #greatest #know

Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures.


Melina Mercouri


#concern #continues #had #little #much

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.


May Sarton


#constant #disasters #few #garden #growth

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.


Walter Scott


#centuries #contemporary #diary #document #dull






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