"He who treasures his body as much as the world can care for the world."
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"Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away."
"You are mine, Aisling. You are mine today, tomorrow and five hundred years from now. You will always be mine. I do not give up my treasures, kincsem. You would do well to remember that."
"If you believe, if you value and treasure and revere the institution of marriage, then you should want every family unit to be really wrapped in marriage."
"Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speaks something good."
"One of the most satisfying aspects of writing is that it can open in us deep wells of hidden treasures that are beautiful for us as well as for others to see."
"Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness."
"... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it."
"Collect treasures that have meaning only to you. Put them in a special place, and explain them to no one, except when you're giving interviews to Time magazine."
"He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds."
"Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life."
"The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure."
"Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight."
"We have shared out, like thieves, the amazing treasures of days and nights."
"Your life is much more important that you can imagine... it is your first treasure."
"An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure; and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair."