#posses

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense. ↗

— James Madison

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We possess only the happiness we are able to understand. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#able #only #possess #understand

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#grasp #only #possess

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#conquer #every #every time #felt #going

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#events #exclusive #formidable #impediment #knowledge

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. ↗

— Karl Marx

#does #fight #history #immense #living

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing. ↗

— Philip Guston

#picturing #possessing #rather #than

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. ↗

— Arsenio Hall

#actor #confident #every #every time #hit

There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature. ↗

— Eliza Haywood

#draw #great #heavenly #more #much

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#completely #few #hope #low #none