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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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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food. ↗

— Herman Gorter

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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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