#possess

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world. ↗

— Julia Gardiner Tyler

#am #commenced #entertaining #i #intend

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#any #confidence #down #duration #government

By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#disuse #gain #lose #possess #use

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#denial #god #possession #right #sin

And I wake up happy, baby, because I possess beauty and I own that beauty in all the forms it can take and the least important of those are physical. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#beauty #knight #love #possessive #romance

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed. ↗

— William Cowper

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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. ↗

— Joan Didion

#because #difficult #europeans #guilty #materialistic

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#body #culture #form #greenland #people