#posse

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. ↗

— George Santayana

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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department. ↗

— Robert Shea

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There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

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It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

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Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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