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A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

Before you ever receive the wonderful treasures of a happy life, you must first give. Give of yourself. Be of service to others. Only what you give can be multiplied back into your own life.

But above all preserve peace of heart. This is more valuable than any treasure.

Be sensible of your wants, that you maybe sensible of your treasures.

Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.

Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.

Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.

Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult times.

Cheating on a good woman is like choosing trash over treasure.

Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is for no good to itself, for it dares not spend those heaps of treasure which it has snatched.

Colorado's majestic landscapes are one of our most valuable assets, and it's important that we work to preserve these treasures.

Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.

Cracked pots allow the treasure to shine forth.

Don't run from lessons; they are little packages of treasure that have been given to us. As we learn from them, our lives change for the better.

Do not lose the treasure of your Self for the pleasure of the senses.

Do I think I'm a national treasure? I don't see why not? I don't see why I shouldn't be. I'm a good lad, really.

Every island to a child is a treasure island.

Dreams, I thought. They're the riches of a poor person, stashed in treasure chests buried deeply in the imagination. But are dreams enough?

Everyone is good at something, and you'll come to find out that the more you share your treasures, the shinier they get, and the more valuable they become. We can become rich beyond imagination when we discover that WE ARE ALL SPARKLING JEWELS.

Evelyn: Look, I... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am. Rick: And what is that? Evelyn: I... am a librarian. The Mummy (1999)

Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.

For this present, hard Is the fortune of the bard, Born out of time; All his accomplishment, From Nature's utmost treasure spent, Booteth not him.

For those who live by faith, the cross is a treasure more valuable than gold and precious stones.

For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art.

For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.

For Zen students, a weed is a treasure.

Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?

He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators . . . she will lay bare before thy gaze the treasures hidden in the depths of her pure virgin bosom.

He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.

Her eyes flicked over the cards, looked at Dimitri, then looked back at the cards. Her expression was blank. "You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can." She pointed to the Wheel of Fortune card. "The wheel is turning, always turning.

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

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

He who had known us before we were even born came to know us infinitely better as he knelt in Gethsemane and as he hung on the cross of Calvary. We come to know those we serve (Mosiah 5:13; compare 1 John 2:3-4). And we certainly come to love and treasure those for whom we sacrifice. Conversely, the depth of the pain we feel in behalf of a loved one is intimately tied to the depth of the love we bear that loved one. Thus only a being filled with infinite and eternal love could perform an infinite and eternal sacrifice.

How lucky we are to have such a treasure of memories.

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

If a fish feels sad when a fisherman's boat is sinking, and that fish owns a priceless treasure: The compassion! Have compassion, even for your enemies!

I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world.

I exist only because inside of me and above all else I am only and above all a Neapolitan. Naples exists inside of me, and always will. Fortunately for me there is this treasure that I have inside of me and, when I need it, then I pull it out.

If I may throw out a word of counsel to beginners, it is: Treasure your exceptions! When there are none, the work gets so dull that no one cares to carry it further. Keep them always uncovered and in sight. Exceptions are like the rough brickwork of a growing building which tells that there is more to come and shows where the next construction is to be.

If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable and precious in your life and set out to find it. The objects you valued defined you.

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. Besides, those voices are merely guardians and demons protecting the real treasure, the first thoughts of the mind.

I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.

If you have good friends, don't look for treasure because you are already rich; if you have just treasure, look for good friends, because you are still poor!

If you believe, if you value and treasure and revere the institution of marriage, then you should want every family unit to be really wrapped in marriage.

I have become interested in languages which I cannot make up, which I cannot create or even create in: I have become interested in languages which I can only come up upon (as I disappear), a pirate upon buried treasure. The dreamer, the dreaming, the dream. I call these languages, languages of the body.

I hope my music can minister to others and bring their hearts closer to God. It has been a different journey of faith and obedience and I am proud to give my time, treasure and talent to the Almighty.

I hope for an America where we can all contend freely and vigorously, but where we will treasure and guard those standards of civility which alone make this nation safe for both democracy and diversity.