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• Once he had taken hold, he did not let go. It was not a handshake, it was a possession.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Letting Go, Taken, Handshake

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• If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Errors, Wish

  Benjamin Franklin (2016). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.21, First Avenue Editions

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• She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, ‘All are shadows!—all are passing!—all is past!

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Past, Giving, Shadow

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1055, Delphi Classics

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• His heritage to his children wasn't words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and a father.

  Will Rogers, Jr.

  Children, Father, Men

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• How you handle or mishandle your money tells us who you are and, more important, it tells YOU who you are. Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money. Your value system, or lack of one causes money to flow around you, passed you, or to you. When money is in your possession, what you do with it screams loudly who you are.

  Dave Ramsey

  Passion, Goal, Priorities

  Dave Ramsey (1999). “More than Enough: The Ten Keys to Changing Your Financial Destiny”, p.28, Penguin

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• An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

  Juvenal

  Writing, Insane, Breasts

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, VII, line 51, 1890.

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• One's own self or material goods, which has more worth?
  Loss (of self) or possession (of goods), which is the greater evil?
  He who loves most, spends most,
  He who hoards much loses much

  Laozi

  Uplifting, Loss, Self

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• What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Happiness, Clouds, Broken

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again to the otherwise boring article, braving the students who, fresh as each class may be, will still ask the same questions year after year. Psychological survival is not achieved without effort, and the environment must be managed, knocked about with one's elbows until it takes a shape comfortable to one's sense of self. This is not selfishness, for in reshaping the environment the academic is also reinvigorating the educational process.

  Robin Winks

  Educational, Teaching, Years

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• No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Jobs, Teaching, Cutting

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• A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, True Friend, True Friend Is

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• No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Character, Religion, Tests

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know his Maker. Man's aim is life is not therefore to add from day to day to his material prospects and to his material possessions, but his predominant calling is, from day to day to come nearer to his own Maker.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Animal, Order

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.210, Penguin Books India

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• Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!

  John Bunyan

  Father, Angel, Joy

  John Bunyan (1831). “The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford”, p.98

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• Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Blessing, Opportunity, Goodness

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Geffrey B. Kelly (1990). “A testament to freedom: the essential writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, Harpercollins

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• Democracy is our most valuable possession. Upholding it is our duty and our responsibility. This means a continuous, decisive and self-confident argument; it means effort and endeavor to reach compromise and long-lasting consensus. These form the cornerstones of the only form of political system that can guarantee freedom.

  Wolfgang Thierse

  Mean, Responsibility, Self

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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

  John Maynard Keynes

  Life, Mean, Reality

  Essays in Persuasion pt. 5 (1931)

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• We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.

  John Stott

  Money, Light, Enemy

  John R. W. Stott (1999). “Our Social and Sexual Revolution: Major Issues for a New Century”, Baker Publishing Group

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• What is the use of freedom of the press if the government is in possession of all the printing presses, what does freedom of assembly avail if all the meeting places belong to the government? In a society in which there is no more personal and economic freedom, even the freest form of the state cannot make political independence possible.

  Eugen Richter

  Philosophy, Government, Political

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• The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Power, Men, Nero

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a reflection of our commitment to the kingdom of God.

  Charles Stanley

  Commitment, Reflection, Giving

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• I understood . . . that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Desire, Salvation, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.233, Courier Corporation

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• To reach satisfaction in all
  desire its possession in nothing,
  To come to the knowledge of all
  desire the knowledge of nothing.
  To come to possess all
  desire the possession of nothing.
  To arrive at being all
  desire to be nothing.

  John of the Cross

  Inspirational, Desire, Satisfaction

  Saint John of the Cross, Kieran Kavanaugh (1987). “John of the Cross: Selected Writings”, p.78, Paulist Press

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• Goods and possessions are no gain in his eyes. He stays far from wealth and honor. Long life is no ground for joy, nor early death for sorrow. Success is not for him to be pround of, failure is no shame. Had he all the world's power he would not hold it as his own. If he conquered everything he would not take it to himself. His glory is in knowing that all things come together in One and life and death are equal.

  Zhuangzi

  Life, Failure, Eye

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• A man that advances in spiritual and in temporal matters at the same time, minding to keep the spiritual first, will not let the temporal lead him; he will not place his heart upon his farm, his horses, or any possession that he has. He will place his desires in heaven, and will anchor his hope in that eternal soil; and his temporal affairs will come up as he advances in the knowledge of God.

  Jedediah M. Grant

  Spiritual, Horse, Heart

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