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The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. – Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To be possessed is an admirable reason for possessing. – Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. – Socrates	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity. – Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. – W.H. Auden	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation. – Anais Nin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage. – Plutarch	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. – Thomas Mann	added by anonymous 14 years ago
...it was always said of him Scrooge that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us – Charles Dickens	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. – Confucius	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What is not fully understood is not possessed. – Johann von Goethe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. – Socrates	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity. – Alexander Hamilton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. – Lois McMaster Bujold	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When the mind is possessed of reality, it feels tranquil and joyous even without music or song, and it produces a pure fragrance even without incense or tea. – Hung Tzu-ch'eng	added by anonymous 14 years ago
No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed. – Sara Teasdale	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed. – Napolean Hill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. – George Santayana	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. – Franklin D. Roosevelt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Real riches are the riches possessed inside. – B. C. Forbes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. – Aldous Huxley	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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