Precious Possessions Quotes

• One of my favorite writers is Michel de Montaigne. My wife gave me a beautiful 17th-century edition of Montaigne's essays translated by John Florio. That's probably my most precious possession.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Beautiful, Wife, My Favorite

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

  John Locke

  Peace, War, Independent

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.191

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• Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

  Herodotus

  Possession, Precious Friends

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  Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

  Democritus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Freedom, Patriotic, Imagination

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.150, University of Georgia Press

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• The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

  J. G. Holland

  Love, Positive, Heartbreak

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• The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Truth, Curiosity, Statistics

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• Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Cherish Every Moment, Live In The Moment

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.23, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Clever, Men

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• That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is....Most people love you for who you pretend to be....To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretense...It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image - they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it - they feel like you’re trying to steal their most precious possession.

  Jim Morrison

  Love, Self Esteem, Hate

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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• In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  War, World, Citizenship

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• This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill the defective child at birth, to leave the sleeping pills beside the bed of the cancer patient ... It is the duty of society to protect the physicians from such requests.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Cancer, Sleep

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• Auschwitz was one of the wealthiest places in the world. Everyone who was deported there had been in such a hurry that they were only able to take along the things they loved the most. Well, of course, a musician would take along her instrument. But then they would take these precious possessions away from the prisoners once they arrived. All these things were kept in a part of the camp the prisoners called "Canada." It was like a giant warehouse.

  Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

  Musician, Giants, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Imagination, Liberty, Possession

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• I own records that have the power to make me cry. Records to be by or with - truly precious possessions. It is the ambition of the Midnight Runners to make records of this value.

  Kevin Rowland

  Ambition, Midnight, Records

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• He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife.

  Nicolas Bentley

  Wife, Greek, Moral

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• In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

  John Bright

  Humble, House, Library

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• Environment grinds us, forces us to adjust, and--consciously or not--kills our most precious possession: that something which enables us to speak with ourselves and with God.

  Mieczyslaw Jastrun

  Speak, Environment, Grind

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• How glorious and near to the angels is youth that is clean. This youth has joy unspeakable here and eternal happiness hereafter. Sexual purity is youth's most precious possession. It is the foundation of all righteousness.

  Harold B. Lee

  Happiness, Angel, Joy

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• At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.

  Benny Carter

  Unfinished Work, Talking, Age

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• Know yourself. Feel yourself. Love yourself. Respect yourself. Take good care of yourself. You are your most precious possession on Earth.

  Robert Muller

  Attitude, Love You, Self Love

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• One of my most precious possessions is my memory of a home in which love was supreme, in which I cannot recall ever a cross word having passed between father and mother. We all owe such a blessing to our children.

  David O. McKay

  Mother, Children, Memories

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• On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility. We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life. In the East, it is destroyed by the dealings and machinations of the ruling party. In the West, commercial interests tend to suffocate it. This is the real crisis.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Atheist, Real

  A World Split Apart, delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University

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• Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.

  Robert Reich

  Teamwork, People, Working Together

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• Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Failure, Ignorance, Thinking

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