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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. ↗

— Walter Scott

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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it. ↗

— Madame de Stael

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In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world. ↗

— Josiah Royce

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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers. ↗

— Gail Godwin

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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you. ↗

— Malcolm Cowley

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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world. ↗

— Edgar Quinet

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He does not possess wealth; it possesses him. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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