#posses

Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#attending #blessings #certain #continue #diligently

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#few #few men #happy #material #material things

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. ↗

— Sallust

#eternal #fame #fleeting #fragile #glorious

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#away #else #enjoy #fact #generosity

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#dust #fame #great #into #life

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

— Albert Schweitzer

#adversity #gains #obstacles #only #overcome

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

— Charles de Secondat

#body #called #democracy #people #possessed

I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#backwards #brain #cat #did #diminished

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

#excited #feelings #may #mind #nature

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

— Samuel Smiles

#become #individual #individual men #industry #men