#posses

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#agreeable #because #before #curiosity #everything

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#eloquence #every #great #great talent #just

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#dream #greater #hope #life #likely

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#consider #hesitation #his #man #material

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#fertile #indifferent #nearly #possessions #possessors

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#art of war #been #detail #evolved #long

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#end #enjoyment #enriched #every #good

Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#nothing #possess #possessed #those #who

I don't think anyone has a right to possess anything he doesn't love - art or anything else. ↗

— Billy Baldwin

#anything #art #else #i #love

The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#buyers #due #earn #exchange #goods