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• Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself. So protect your families! See in them your country’s greatest treasure and nourish them always by prayer and the grace of the sacraments.

  Pope Francis

  Country, Prayer, Greatest Treasure

  Pope Francis' Speech during the Meeting with Families at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila, Philippines, w2.vatican.va. January 16, 2015.

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• You can order yourself to treasure a moment, to cling tight to a feeling and never let it fade, but it's your brain, that three-pound lump of hamburger, that makes the final call.

  Isaac Marion

  Order, Feelings, Brain

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• Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Book, Skills, Larks

  1820 'To a Skylark', stanza 21.

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• The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Lazy, Genius, Riches

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• Man is more than half of nature's treasure.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Men, Half

  Hartley Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.5

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• Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.

  George Steiner

  Imagination, House, Body

  George Steiner (1980). “The death of tragedy”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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.

  William Bateson

  Sight, Beginners, Growing

  William Bateson, Beatrice Durham Bateson (1928). “William Bateson, F. R. S., Naturalist: His Essays & Addresses, Together with a Short Account of His Life”, p.324, CUP Archive

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• Compensation is counterintuitive:  The more treasure you give away to those who serve well, the more treasure will return to you.  But few people perceive this simple truth.  Most try to keep as much as they can for themselves and give little away.  That's why their purses refuse to fatten.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Simple, People, Giving

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• If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

  John Milton

  Ambition, Hands, Favors

  John Milton (1785). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton. A New Edition. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, ...”, p.92

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• Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

  John Milton

  Men, Jewels, Left

  John Milton (1855). “The first four books of Milton's Paradise lost; with notes, by C.W. Connon”, p.101

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• Mary properly bore the name of Virgin, and possessed to the full all the attributes of purity. She was a virgin in both body and soul, and kept all the powers of her soul and her bodily senses far above any defilement. This she did authoritatively, steadfastly, decisively and altogether inviolably at all times, as a closed gate preserves the treasure within, and a sealed book keeps hidden from sight what is written inside. The Scriptures say of her, 'This is the sealed book' (cf. Rev. 5:1-6:1; Dan. 12:4) and 'this gate shall be shut, and no man shall enter by it' (Ezek. 44:2).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Book, Men

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• Watch yourself with all diligence, lest the enemy steals near and robs you, depriving you of this great treasure, which is inner peace and stillness of soul. The enemy strives to destroy the peace of the soul, because he knows that when the soul is in turmoil it is more easily led to evil. But you must guard your peace.

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Christian, Evil, Inner Peace

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• Trinity!! Higher than any being, any divinity, any goodness! Guide of Christians in the wisdom of heaven! Lead us up beyond unknowing and light, up to the farthest, highest peak of mystic scripture, where the mysteries of God's Word lie simple, absolute and unchangeable in the brilliant darkness of a hidden silence. Amid the deepest shadow they pour overwhelming light on what is most manifest. Amid the wholly unsensed and unseen they completely fill our sightless minds with treasures beyond all beauty.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Lying, Simple

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

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Journey, Layers

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• Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call. Wanted to sail upon your waters, since I was three feet tall. You've seen it all, you've seen it all. Watched the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam. In your belly, you hold the treasure that few have ever seen, most of them dreams, most of them dreams.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Mother, Dream, Travel

  "Song: "A Pirate Looks At Forty" ("A1A ")". December 1974.

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• We have begun a throw away culture. This tendency is seen on the level of individuals and whole societies; and it is being promoted! In circumstances like these, solidarity, which is the treasure of the poor, is often considered counterproductive, opposed to the logic of finance and the economy. While the income of a minority is increasing exponentially, that of the majority is crumbling.

  Pope Francis

  Majority, Crumbling, Income

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.35, Orbis Books

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• I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.

  Doris Lessing

  Solitude, Contact, Humans

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• The summer breeze was blowing on your face
  Within your violet you treasure your summery words
  And as the shiver from my neck down to my spine
  Ignited me in daylight and nature in the garden

  Van Morrison

  Summer, Nature, Garden

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• Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Mother, Journey

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• [T]he "home" represents the most precious human treasures, that of encounter, that of relations among people, different in age, culture and history, but who live together and together help one another to grow. For this reason, the "home" is a crucial place in life, where life grows and can be fulfilled, because it is a place in which every person learns to receive love and to give love.

  Pope Francis

  Family, Home, People

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• We Christians bring peace and grace as a treasure to be offered to the world, but these gifts can bear fruit only when Christians live and work together in harmony. This makes it easier to contribute to building relations of respect and peaceful coexistence with those who belong to other religious traditions, and with non-believers.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Religious, Grace

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• The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough ... Moreover, our greatest task is to keep you faithful to this article and to bequeath this treasure to you when we die.

  Martin Luther

  Faithful, Tasks, Enough

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• There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When a painter discovers this hidden treasure, other people are immediately struck by its beauty.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  People, Landscape, May

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• The immense success of our life is, I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it.

  Virginia Woolf

  Thinking, Common, Life Is

  Virginia Woolf (1980). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Our treasure is what we fear losing, and I fear that we fear losing our treasure. We are lovers of money.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Lovers, Losing

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