Famous quotes containing the word precious:
“Let none admire
That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
Deserve the precious bane.”
—John Milton (16081674)
“Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but
now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“why
Do our black faces search the empty sky?
Is there something we have forgotten? some precious thing
We have lost, wandering in strange lands?”
—Arna Bontemps (19021973)
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