Possessor Quotes
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There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.
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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.
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A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets.
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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
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As a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his eyes, which is its natural route to the soul; arriving there and setting him all aflutter, it waters the passages of the feathers and causes the wings to grow, and fills the soul of the loved one in his turn with love.
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Such moods do not last unless the possessor of them is prepared to wither away, and Eve was not about to let herself wither.
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Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.
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Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude, our companion when friendless; it guides us to happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is an ornament among our friends and an armor against enemies.
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The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds - where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough - a modest living- and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.
