Famous quotes containing the word precious:
“Death is untutored, with an ignorant frown
For precious identities of breath.”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all thats precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows!... eternal fountain of our feelings!tis here I trace theeand this is thy divinity which stirs within me ...all comes from thee, greatgreat SENSORIUM of the world!”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
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