Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else.


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Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,
Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
ROBERT FROST
There's no testimony that he ever used it, possessed it, borrowed it.
GERALD SCHWARTZBACH
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
B. C. FORBES
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
I die, - but first I have possessed, / And come what may, I have been blessed.
LORD BYRON
Gems being precious just cannot be possessed by all and sundry.
SAM VEDA
What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?
BILLY SUNDAY
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devil...
TRYON EDWARDS
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devil...
TRYON EDWARDS
What is not fully understood is not possessed.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.
MORIHEI UESHIBA
No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
SARA TEASDALE
What is not fully understood is not possessed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
No one worth possessing - Can be quite possessed
SARA TEASDALE
The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.
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Indeed, the key to all diplomacy was knowing when they were serious about their threats and when the...
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He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view.
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He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.
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He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.
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Even when he played, he made a business of it.
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He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.
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He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.
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He adored competing but didn't want you to know he'd ever worked at it.
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He forced himself into good spirits.
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He was trying to find his footing in a world both familiar and foreign
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There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.
CARRIE FISHER
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
GEORGE MEREDITH
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
EDMUND BURKE
He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.
MAHATMA GANDHI
No one worth possessing
Can be quite possessed.
SARA TEASDALE
Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
KHALIL GIBRAN
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
JAMES A. FROUDE
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
THOMAS MANN
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere. You even smell it.
THOMAS MANN
Taste: a quality possessed by persons without originality or moral courage.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.
PETER KREEFT
Seek Virtue, and, of that possessed, To Providence, resign the rest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
It really is crazy for him to be so possessed to kill his mother and brother.
DARRELL JONES
Sometimes when I'm writing, I wonder if the words have a mind of their own, and if they're really ju...
TRAVIS J. DAHNKE
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves...
RUTH BENEDICT
He possessed a lot of qualities that we wanted in a consultant.
MIKE ALDEN
He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.
A.W. TOZER
Creative people neither like to be possessive nor like to be possessed.
AMIT KALANTRI
Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.
WILLA CATHER
Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.
ROD SERLING
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
DALE CARNEGIE
No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
WILLIAM COWPER
Some herders who possessed between 30 and 50 animals woke up with none,
AMADOU DOUTCHI
I think that they [Bush Administration] are men who are possessed of evil.
HARRY BELAFONTE
An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur
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Webster was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin.
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One of the most painful realizations in life, is to all of a sudden discover that you had possessed ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
BIBLE
You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed...
NAPOLEON HILL
It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting...
CONRAD VEIDT
But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
TED KOTCHEFF
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W. H. AUDEN
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
PLUTARCH
Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.
ANON.
Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.
SUSAN SONTAG
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W.H. AUDEN
Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To...
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Truth is not an object to be possessed; it is a living thing recognized, cultivated by the mind and ...
BLAISE PASCAL
Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their lit...
HUGH MILLER
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Nothing makes you feel more naked than someone identifying a desire you never knew you possessed.
JEFF ZENTNER
Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and un...
HATTIE MCDANIEL
He literally was demon possessed with the bottle, ... In that regard, he's not like 'Nuke' LaLoosh.
RON SHELTON
I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.
BRAD DELSON
The only people who get possessed are those who are open to the possibility of possession.
BERNARD H. POWELL
You both should feel honored.”
“Right, very honored,” I said. “Always wanted to be poss...
RICK RIORDAN
...when he possessed her, they seemed to swoon together at the very borderland of life’s mystery.
KATE CHOPIN
We really don't know what his status is. But we certainly could not grant immunity (because of the f...
TYRONE PARHAM
I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really wa...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Greeley knew no language but his, but of that, he possessed a most extraordinary mastery. An employe...
HAROLD HOLZER
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul w...
JOSEPH ADDISON
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
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She possessed a quiet determination. She got what she needed through following the rules. She was ve...
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You have to be completely possessed by God and His kingdom, and this will cause stable financial pro...
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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object belove...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which t...
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Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England It frequently happens that the value of a thing lies in the ...
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Happiness is never found in materialistic things; it exists in things that cannot be physically poss...
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True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed wit...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
...congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double...
ELIZABETH GOULD DAVIS
. . . congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a d...
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The reason for longevity is truth and honesty, and I think we that we possessed that and it manifest...
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