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Quote 3104
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on possession
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Quote 3022
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is natureby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on possession
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Quote 2929
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truthby: John LockeShowing Quotes on possession
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Quote 2825
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lendby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on possession
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Quote 2783
The agitator seizes the world. The artist is seized by itby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on possession
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Quote 2729
Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?by: John KeatsShowing Quotes on possession
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Quote 2419
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitledby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on possession
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Quote 1952
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wifeby: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on possession
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Quote 1786
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessedby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on possession
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Quote 1727
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.by: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on possession
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Quote 391
No one possesses unalloyed pleasure; there is some anxiety mingled with the joyby: OvidShowing Quotes on possession
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Quote 29
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.by: EpikurShowing Quotes on possession
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Quote 23
If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you.Showing Quotes on possession
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Quote 16
He does not possess wealth, it possesses him.Showing Quotes on possession
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