Retained Interest Valued

Famous quotes containing the words retained, interest and/or valued:

    “Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.”
    —Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

    “I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Had he but spared his tongue and pen
    He might have rose like other men;
    But power was never in his thought,
    And wealth he valued not a groat;”
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)