"Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head."
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"The Universe favors the brave. When you resolve to lift your life to its highest level, the strength of your soul will guide you to a magical place with magnificent treasures."
"Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth."
"Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge: If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not. God calleth preaching folly. Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speak something good. If all want sense, God takes a text, and preaches patience."
"The independents are the ones who tend to commit suicide. I'm not against this way of being in the world. Individuals have brought us many treasures. You can't just say that's a bad way of being in the world - it's not. But it's not everyone's way of being in the world."
"The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains."
"We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are."
"We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament."
"Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God."
"No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life."
"The journey is the treasure."
"Hope is life's greatest treasure. If you have no hope, create some!"
"A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others."
"As he was about to climb yet another dune, his heart whispered, "Be aware of the place where you are brought to tears. That's where I am, and thats where your treasure is."
"Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public."
"A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it."
"There is no treasure like the human heart."
"The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc.; but how few acknowledge these as God's special gifts, much less give God thanks for them."
"One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short."
"When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank."