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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
Riches
B. C. Forbes

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He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.
Wealth
Benjamin Franklin

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
Reason
James A. Froude

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Prospect is often better than possession.
Expectation
Thomas Fuller

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
Love
Kahlil Gibran

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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Giving
Andre Gide

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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Emotions
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
Change
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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What is not fully understood is not possessed.
Knowledge
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
Understanding
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
Secrets
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
Riches
Billy Graham

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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
Riches
Dick Gregory

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The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.
Habit
James Harris

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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Desire
Napoleon Hill

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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
Anxiety
Ben Johnson

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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
Mistakes
Samuel Johnson

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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
Knowledge
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

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Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.
Writers and Writing
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
Common Sense
Charles Kingsley

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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
Choice
J. Martin Kohe

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
Power
J. Martin Kohe

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The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
Jealousy
Johann Kaspar Lavater

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I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
Dedication
David Livingstone

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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
Ideas
Thomas Mann

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun