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• God created the first pair equal in rights, possessions, and authority. He bequeathed the earth to them as a joint inheritance; gave them joint dominion over the irrational creation; but none over each other.

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

  Equality, Rights, Inheritance

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• As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.

  Michel de Montaigne

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• Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life; my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.

  Amelia Barr

  Dream, Sight, Discipline

  Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart”, p.137, Library of Alexandria

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• . . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Pain, Distance, Evil

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• O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions Time!

  Theresa Villiers

  Valuable, Prodigals

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• Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wisdom, Lying, Mercy

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• Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.

  William Shakespeare

  Slander, Succession

  William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?.) (1863). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor. Measure for measure. The comedy of errors”, p.424

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• Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth.

  R.D. Blackmore

  Self, Law, Nine

  Annabella Bloom, Lucy Hartbury, Brenna Chase, M.J. Porteus, Emily Bronte (2015). “Wildly Wanton: 10 Spiced-Up Literary Classics”, p.4063, Interweave

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• For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Running, Men

  Plato (1963). “The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters”, Bollingen

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• Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness,to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten; so painting teaches me the splendor of color and the expression of form, and as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art, I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dance, Art, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.212, Harvard University Press

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• Love is not a possession but a growth. The heart is a lamp with just oil enough to burn for an hour, and if there be no oil to put in again its light will go out. God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Love Is, Light

  Henry Ward Beecher (1895). “Metaphors, Similes and Other Characteristic Sayings of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively in human and visible means, nor rests in any visible end. He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.

  Thomas Merton

  Mean, Imagination, Trust In God

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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• Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.

  Jean Racine

  Anticipation, Felicity

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• May Christ the Savior give peace to Nigeria, where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of their possessions, held as hostages or killed.

  Pope Francis

  Peace, Blood, People

  "Pope's Christmas message: Iraq and Syria have suffered too long" by Susanna Capelouto, www.cnn.com. December 25, 2014.

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• Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Letting Go, Ability

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• A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, Society

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.399

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• The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Grief, Heart, Sleep

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• Now there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only when more houses are being constructed that some countries consider their economics healthy. Yet each house is a heavy footprint on the Earth. Just as all our possessions represent-if we cannot learn ways of sharing them-a weight and clutter that often means the faces of future generations will look up into darkness and the pressure on the Earth of "things."

  Alice Walker

  Country, Mean, House

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• But God lets men have their playthings, like the children they are, that they may learn to distinguish them from true possessions. If they are not learning that he takes them from them, and
  tries the other way: for lack of them and its misery, they will perhaps seek the true!

  George MacDonald

  Children, Men, Trying

  George MacDonald (1978). “The World of George Macdonald: Selections from His Works of Fiction”, Shaw

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• A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges. No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees. The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.

  Ramakrishna

  Fall, Men, Water

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• Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.

  Sallust

  Sacrifice, Hair, Offering

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• The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions.

  Robert Payne

  Military, Oligarchy, Wealth

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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• Let those possess the land, and only those,
  Who love it with a love so strong and stupid
  That they may be abused and taken advantage of
  And made fun of by business, law, and art.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Art, Strong

  Robert Frost, David Bradley, Dewitt Jones (1979). “Robert Frost, a tribute to the source”, Henry Holt & Co

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• We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.

  David Abram

  Assuming, Language, Mute

  Interview with Derrick Jensen, www.derrickjensen.org. July 1, 2000.

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• He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end- death. These thoughts were familiar to him, many times had he turned them over this way and that, first shuddering at the probability of annihilation, then welcoming it, almost rejoicing in it. Suddenly a peculiarly familiar agitation took possession of him... He mused awhile, sat down at the table, and wrote down the following lines in his sacred copy-book, without a single correction.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Book, Fall, Reflection

  Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.870, Delphi Classics

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