Possesses Quotes
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A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.
Isaac Stern
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Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
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You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the same type are for her obliged to prove endeavor in one place and freedom in another, exactly as she pleases.
Martin Luther
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The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
Henrik Ibsen
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The God of Christians is a God of love and comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom he possesses, a God who makes them conscious of their inward wretchedness, and his infinite mercy; who unites himself to their inmost soul, who fills it with humility and joy, with confidence and love, who renders them incapable of any other end than himself.
Blaise Pascal
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What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Each of us possesses five fundamental, enthralling maps to the natural world: sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell. As we unravel the threads that bind us to nature, as denizens of data and artifice, amid crowds and clutter, we become miserly with these loyal and exquisite guides, we numb our sensory intelligence. This failure of attention will make orphans of us all.
Ellen Meloy
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Sometimes one appears to have more freedom than one actually possesses. It is easy to see what one wishes to see.
Anne Mallory
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He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.
Edith Södergran
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If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever.
Gautama Buddha
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Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us.
Haruki Murakami
