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"No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed." »Sara Teasdale
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"What is not fully understood is not possessed." »Johann von Goethe
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"No one worth possessing
Can be quite possessed." »Sara Teasdale
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"In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag." »W.H. Auden
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"To be possessed is an admirable reason for possessing." »Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night
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"If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it." »Thomas Mann
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"I've seen a disciplined man who possessed nought, and i've seen a wealthy man who is devoid of understanding." »lot chakonza
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"No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage." »Plutarch
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"...it was always said of him Scrooge that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us" »Charles Dickens
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"Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed." »Confucius
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"Two persons die remorseful: he who possessed and enjoyed not, and he who knew but did not practise." »Sa?di
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"You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed." »Napolean Hill
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"The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself." »Aldous Huxley
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"When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out." »George Santayana
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"When the mind is possessed of reality, it feels tranquil and joyous even without music or song, and it produces a pure fragrance even without incense or tea." »Hung Tzu-ch'eng
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"The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy." »Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950)
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"I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion." »Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades of paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colours more beautiful, though not so glowing as they would be without it." »Addison
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"Real riches are the riches possessed inside." »B. C. Forbes
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"Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear." »Socrates
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"Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear." »Socrates
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"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation." »Anais Nin
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"You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity." »Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
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"It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity." »Alexander Hamilton
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"If you wish to know how much preferable wisdom is to gold, then observe: if you change gold you get silver for it, but your gold is gone; but if you exchange one sort of wisdom for another, you obtain fresh knowledge, and at the same time keep what you possessed before." »The Talmud
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"In the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not. If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed of the happiness thou hast, and the more strongly confirmed. If it come, thou art the more gently dispossessed of the happiness thou hadst, and the more firmly prepared." »Francis Quarles
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"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love." »Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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