Precious

Famous quotes containing the word precious:

“... we, like so many others who think more of working than of dying, care only to push on steadily, wishing less for cessation of toil than for strength to keep at it; and for wisdom to make it worthy of the ideal of labor and of life which we believe to be the most precious gift of Heaven to any soul.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)

“Gaze not on a maid, that thou fall not be by those things that are precious to her.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 9:5.

“Sweet are the uses of adversity
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)