When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had a crucial social role. It was to foster and protect the kind of values for which a philistine social order had precious little ti...
Just when we are in many ways moving to an ever greater validation of the sacredness of the individual person, our capacity to imagine a social fabric that would hold individuals together is vanishing. This is in part because of the fact that our eth...
O guide my judgment and my taste, Sweet Spirit, author of the book Of wonders, told in language chaste And plainness, not to be mistook. O let me muse, and yet at sight The page admire, the page believe; "Let there be light, and there was light, Let ...
The name Aziza is of Arabic origin and means precious. I call her Sitti, the Arabic village word for my grandmother. Although Sitti stands true to her name, someone is always telling her she isn’t precious. As she grows into womanhood, Sitti hides ...
A precious, mouldering pleasure ’t is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think.
It means that you two, precious father and son, would be a pair of knaves if you had sense enough; but, failing in that, you are only a pair of fools!
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
She filed those moments away like precious documents, wore them smooth with memory, collected them like bits of prayers.
...there’s no magic in places. Only people, and precious little of that; less and less the older you get.
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.
He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.
Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.
Tears are infinitely more precious than blood. Blood spurts from the body; tears stream from the soul.
I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house." [ , Oct. 10, 1842]
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.
Sake The jewel which brightly shines at night Is precious, but cannot measure up To the delights of drinking sake, Drowning one's troubles in the cup. Otomo no Tabito
[T]he Dollar is always too light, a genuine Holy Ghost, more precious than blood.
Life equaled love plus passion squared. Loving and being passionate about what one did was what made life so precious.
You're terribly selfish, you know. I've loved you so long, and it was never dear or precious to you. I might as well have not loved you at all.
