Precious Quotes

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When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own and hide it… — Annie Dillard
In wartime we provide truth with a bodyguard of lies because it is so precious. — Adolf Hitler
Do things to make your day precious. — Bernie Siegel
Once you have found yourself and accepted your aloneness, then the greatest blessing is to share the love that arises within you. Each new moment… — Leonard Jacobson
Masonic ideas are the precious jewels of Speculative Masons; the should be kept bright and sparkling for all the brethren to see and to admire.… — Benjamin Franklin
Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no… — Alain de Botton
To every description of citizens, let praise be given. but let them persevere in their affectionate vigilance over that precious depository of American happiness, the… — George Washington
Oh, how precious is time! And how guilty it makes me feel when I think I have trifled away and misimproved it, or neglected to… — David Brainerd
Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it. — David Sylvian
It's fun being one of the boys. It's fun to have a character that's rough and gets down and dirty and not to be this… — Diane Kruger
Let all your thoughts be with the Most High, and direct your humble prayers unceasingly to Christ. If you cannot contemplate high and heavenly things,… — Thomas a Kempis
Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use. — Mark Twain
Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we… — Brian Tracy
Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else. — Martin Buber
Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of the mechanism that… — Peter Kropotkin
As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then… — Aung San Suu Kyi
In prayer, it is better to have heart without words, than words without heart. Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin entice… — John Bunyan
SakeThe jewel which brightly shines at nightIs precious, but cannot measure up To the delights of drinking sake,Drowning one's troubles in the cup. Otomo no… — Reiko Chiba
Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name… — Charles Spurgeon
He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent… — James Russell Lowell
When you are completely free from boundaries, you don't have to have a huge number of material things. You already own something far more precious.… — Deepak Chopra
The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. — Nhat Hanh
Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Guard your integrity as if it's your most precious leadership possession, because that is what it is. — David Cottrell
Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an… — Chad Harbach

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