John Locke
Philosopher, Physician
"The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves."
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Possession
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George Carlin
Comedian, Actor
"We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession."
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations."
Socrates
Philosopher
"How many things I can do without!"
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"I feel like each possession is a battle and you never want to lose a battle."
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"The possession of anything begins in the mind."
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"Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind."
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"Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade."
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"Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it."
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"Health is the greatest possession."
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"Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession."
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"Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession."
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"For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived."
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"It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness."
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"Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power."
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"He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination."
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"Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared."
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"No possession is gratifying without a companion."
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"This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society."
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"Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession."
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"The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession."
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"Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession."
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"As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs."
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"Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty."
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