Possession Quotes - Page 6

It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.

If you're prosperous in soul, you'll be prosperous in whole, regardless of how many and how much physical possessions you have

Enthusiasm is a divine possession.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

Music is everybody's possession.

Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show

Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.

The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.

The goods we spend we keep; and what we save We lose; and only what we lose we have.

There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.

We have learned by now that our beauty does not count as a possession. The only thing we truly own is our legend.

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

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

Without possessions, success, fame; who are you?

I felt I was owned by possessions.

Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself.

By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many.

Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.

The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.