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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever. – Henry van Dyke	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. – Henry van Dyke	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different. – F. Scott Fitzgerald	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. – Henry Ward Beecher	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows. – G. I. Gurdjieff	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I am willing to be persuaded into seeing any other person's perspective as long as they possess, at the very least, two properly functioning brain cells. Unfortunately, this is a rare commodity. – Ahmed Korayem	added by anonymous 11 years ago
If you cannot be open minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you. – Bryant McGill	added by anonymous 11 years ago
He alone is poor who does not possess knowledge. – The Talmud	added by anonymous 12 years ago
A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good wife, or anything that is worse than a bad one. – Simonides	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence. – R Chamberlain	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Peace is precious to us. It is the way of life we strive for with all the strength and wisdom we possess. But more precious than peace are freedom and justice. We will fight, if fight we must, to keep our freedom and to prevent justice from being destroyed. – Harry S Truman	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The innate power you possess to achieve your dreams is immeasurable." – Steve Maraboli	added by anonymous 13 years ago
One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. One feels a sort of madness come over one, as if the world had become hell. But it is only superimposed: it is only a temporary disease. It can be cleaned away. – D. H. Lawrence	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. – Aldous Huxley	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society. – Janet Jackson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To have little is to possess.To have plenty is to be perplexed. – Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want. – Terence, Eunuchus	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you. – Malcolm Cowley	added by anonymous 13 years ago
You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring by your means much information unaided by instruction, they will appear to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise in their own conceit, instead of truly wise. – Socrates, Phaedrus, sct. 275	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. – Henry Van Dyke	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess. – Heinrich Heine	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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