Quotes 21 till 40 of 73.
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Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.
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Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
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I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty.
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I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.
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I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.
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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
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If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
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In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.
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Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man is in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.
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Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.
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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.
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Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.
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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.
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Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.
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No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
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