Possession Quotes
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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
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For you have in your possession a sacred trust. Guard it well.
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Music is everybody's possession.
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Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.
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If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.
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One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.
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I really think I want to live in a lot of places.I don't want possessions to hold me down.
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The attitudes of others toward a child's capacities are far more important than his possession of particular traits. The fact of any handicap is not nearly so vital as the reactions toward it of those around him.
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The wavering mind is but a base possession.
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Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.
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I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.
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Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
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Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire.
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The love of money as a possession-as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life – will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi – criminal, semi – pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease...
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Love and exclusive possession can never go together.
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When young, beware of fighting; when strong, beware of sex; and when old, beware of possession.
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The present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science; and it must needs concern us to know the steps by which these possessions were acquired, and the documents by which they are secured to us and our heirs for ever.
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The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
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It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!
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Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.
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Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire.
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Exorcists always need to distinguish demonic possessions from mental or psychiatric disorders, and they use three symptoms to identify people as possessed. First, those people have the ability to see hidden sacred objects, which they always want removed. Second, they have an extraordinary physical strength. And third, they show an aversion to the sacred
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Hope is the best possession.
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To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.
