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32 quotesWho ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Patience
Francis Bacon
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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.
Death and Dying
Hilaire Belloc
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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
Riches
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
Greed
Andre Breton
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Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
Wives
Vera Brittain
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My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.
Fulfillment
J. Brotherton
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A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
Truth
Sir Thomas Browne
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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Words
Orson Scott Card
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Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
Relationships
Anthony J. D'Angelo
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Happiness
Democritus
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All my possessions for a moment of time.
Time and Time Management
Queen Elizabeth
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The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
Farming and Farmers
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The wavering mind is but a base possession.
Mind
Euripides
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Prospect is often better than possession.
Expectation
Thomas Fuller
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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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
Riches
Dick Gregory
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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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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Happiness
Daphne Du Maurier
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A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.
Exercise
David Mccord
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Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
Duty
George Meredith
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For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
Writers and Writing
George Orwell
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
Freedom
Pericles
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Possession is nine tenths of the law.
Law and Lawyers
Proverb
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Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.
Time and Time Management
John Randolph
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
Duty
John D. Rockefeller
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun