#posses

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

— Edward Gibbon

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss. ↗

— Dick Gregory

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All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished. ↗

— George Grey

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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost. ↗

— Douglas Haig

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

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In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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