Possession Quotes - Page 3

• It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Two, May, Said

  "La Fontaine's Fables" by Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, V. 3, p. 75, 1988.

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• Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.

  Abraham Cowley

  Wise, Book, Angel

  Abraham Cowley, “The Wish”

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• The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.

  Luis XVIII de Francia

  Air, Sea, Empires

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 615-17, when Comte de Provence (1783). Impromter sur nos decouverte aerostatiques. Year of the aeronautical experiments of the brothers Montgolfier, Pilatre de Rozier, and Marquis d'Arlandes, 1922.

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• La búsqueda de la verdad es más valiosa que su posesión.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Truth, Curiosity, Precious Possessions

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• La salud es la mayor posesión.

  Laozi

  Salud

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

  Jonathan Swift

  Law, Eleven

  "Works". Volume XVII, p. 270,

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• Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Air, Sea, Land

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.8

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• Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sides, Argument, Aspiration

  James Russell Lowell (1872). “Among my Books: Contents: Dryden. Witchcraft. Shakespeare once more. New England two centuries ago. Lessing. Rousseau and the Sentimentalists”, p.233

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• Music is everybody's possession.

  John Lennon

  La música es

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Love Is, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Fusion

  Zygmunt Bauman (2013). “Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds”, p.16, John Wiley & Sons

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• It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends - an autobiographical impulse should twice in my life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Book, Taken, Littles

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karin Jacobson (2004). “CliffsComplete The Scarlet Letter”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People may have too much of a good thing:
  Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing.

  John Wolcot

  Eggs, People, May

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 617), 1922.

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• If you spend a thing you can not have it.
  [Lat., Non tibi illud apparere si sumas potest.]

  Plauto

  Can Not, Ifs

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• Ese perro es mío, dijeron esos pobres niños; ese lugar en el sol es mío; tal es el principio y el tipo de la usurpación en toda la tierra.
  [Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre].

  Blaise Pascal

  Dog, Children, Earth

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• Pues resulta que lo que tenemos no lo apreciamos en su valor mientras lo disfrutamos, sino que, al faltarnos y perderlo, entonces lo valoramos, entonces encontramos la virtud que la posesión no nos mostraría mientras fuera nuestra.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Virtue, Lost

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1486, Oxford University Press

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• Su posesión más preciada no son sus activos financieros. Su posesión más preciada son las personas que trabajan con usted, lo que llevan en la cabeza y su capacidad para trabajar juntos.

  Robert Reich

  Teamwork, People, Working Together

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• Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures,
  That is the only wealth for ever yours.
  [Lat., Extra fortunam est, quidquid donatur amicis;
  Quas dederis, selas semper habebis opes.]

  Marcial

  Fate, Giving, Wealth

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• El amor es una fuerza más formidable que cualquier otra. Es invisible, no puede verse ni medirse, pero es lo bastante poderoso para transformarte en un momento y ofrecerte más alegría que cualquier posesión material.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Amor, Inspiración, Romántico

  Barbara De Angelis (1997). "Are You the One for Me? ; Real Moments", Fine Communications

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• The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.

  Walter Scott

  Empires, Sun, Immense

  Walter Scott (2010). “The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French: With a Preliminary View of the French Revolution”, p.141, Cambridge University Press

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• Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.

  Charles Kingsley

  Mean, World

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Saint's Tragedy: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.17, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.

  A. S. Byatt

  Best Of Me, Creatures, Pens

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• Todos los que tienen algo temen perderlo, y a los que no tienen nada les preocupa no tener nada para siempre. Todo el mundo es igual.

  Haruki Murakami

  Miedo, Gente, Preocupación

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• One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Book, Wealth Of Knowledge

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• Para un escritor creativo, la posesión de la "verdad" es menos importante que la sinceridad emocional.

  George Orwell

  Amor, Escritura, Corazón

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

  Peregrino de la paz

  Life, Giving, Inner Peace

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.95, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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