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True fortitude I take to be the quiet possession of a man's self, and an undisturbed doing his duty, whatever evil besets or danger lies in his way (Possession Quotes)
You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession (Possession Quotes)
In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents (Possession Quotes)
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth (Possession Quotes)
There is but one thing necessary to keep the possession of true glory, which is to hear the opposers of it with patience, and preserve the virtue by which it was acquired (Possession Quotes)
Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship (Possession Quotes)
The possession of great powers, no doubt, carries with it a contempt for mere external show (Possession Quotes)
Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms (Possession Quotes)
It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous (Possession Quotes)
For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection (Possession Quotes)
In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time (Possession Quotes)
The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made (Possession Quotes)
Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable (Possession Quotes)
Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance (Possession Quotes)
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result (Possession Quotes)
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him (Possession Quotes)
Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so (Possession Quotes)
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal (Possession Quotes)
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace (Possession Quotes)
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction (Possession Quotes)
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession (Possession Quotes)
The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men (Possession Quotes)
At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it. After that, there remains only the journey itself, which is nothing but the process through which we lose our ownership of it (Possession Quotes)
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth (Possession Quotes)
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment (Possession Quotes)
Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self (Possession Quotes)
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It’s a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others (Possession Quotes)
Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another (Possession Quotes)
Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession (Possession Quotes)
At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I’ve got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself (Possession Quotes)