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  Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

  Pericles

  Courage, Freedom, Words Of Wisdom

  "Homage to Greece". Book by Anglo-American-Hellenic Bureau of Education, 1943.

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• Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Men, Aggravation

  "Paul Ryan's faith in Ayn Rand is a political problem for Romney" by Giles Fraser, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2012.

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• Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.

  Pierre Charron

  Heart, House, May

  Pierre Charron (1707). “Of wisdom: Three books. Written originally in French, by the Sieur de Charron. With an account of the author. Made English by George Stanhope, ...”

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• Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

  Epicurus

  Philosophical, Loss, Envy

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• This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain: They who have nothing have little to fear, Nothing to lose or to gain.

  Madison Cawein

  Rain, Wind, Littles

  Madison Cawein (2017). “The Cup of Comus: Fact and Fancy”, p.19, Litres

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• Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Sensitive Person, Giving

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• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Funny, Relationship

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)

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• The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.

  Reinhold Messner

  Life, Wonderful, Doings

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• All my possessions for a moment of time.

  Elizabeth I

  Time, Moments, Famous Last Words

  Last words

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• The possession of anything begins in the mind.

  Bruce Lee

  Mind

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.371, Tuttle Publishing

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• Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

  John Ruskin

  Workout, Simplicity, Consumerism

  The Eagle's Nest ch. 5 (1872)

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• They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.

  A. S. Byatt

  Beach, Dark, Night

  FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from May 22, 2013

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• Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Rights, Poverty, Duty

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• The goods we spend we keep; and what we save
  We lose; and only what we lose we have.

  Francis Quarles

  Goods, Loses

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• I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending – sweet or sour – and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?

  A. S. Byatt

  Sweet, Greed, Needs

  A S Byatt (2012). “Possession: A Romance”, p.176, Random House

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• Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

  Myrna Loy

  Life, Dance, Dancing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

  A. S. Byatt

  Fire, Humans, Mere

  "Possession". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Kindness, Sacrifice

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Joy, Spirit

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

  Edward Gibbon

  Freedom, Desire, Liberty

  Edward Gibbon (1839). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.127

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• Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Self Improvement, Use, Treasure

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• What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and all men. The woods, the streams, everything on it belongs to everybody and is for the use of all. How can one man say it belongs only to him?

  Massasoit

  Mother, Children, Native American

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• The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

  Anais Nin

  Spiritual, Life Lesson, Knowledge

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• Possession is nine-tenths of the law.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Law, Nine

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• For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Home, Black And White, Comfort

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Daniel Falk, Friedrich von Müller (1833). “Characteristics of Goethe: From the German of Falk, Von Müller, &c., with Notes, Original and Translated, Illustrative of German Literature”, p.246

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