Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
All great and precious things are lonely.
The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.
Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.
Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty
Pain pays the income of each precious thing.
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
The most precious things in speech are the pauses.
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
These precious things, let them bleed.
When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.
Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.
Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?
When you were young, you thought time was a burden, something to be discharged as fast as possible so you could be grown-up. But it was such a bait-n-switch – when you were an adult, you came to realize that minutes and hours were the single most precious thing you had.
It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by it. Be faithful to your gift and very confident in its value.
A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.
... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.
We forget that our bodies are the most valuable, precious thing we have and take that miracle of life for granted.
Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.
The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.
The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves. All that they do, they do only for their own sake. For these self- centered individuals, the most precious things in the world is their ‘self.’ Like a cancer that eats and destroys its own cells, the self-centered individual is slowly dying inwardly.
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