#posses

The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#condition #consideration #emigrate #fixed #found

In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#always #essentially #everything #god #grace

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#adore #because #gems #i #mine

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#diminish #ease #fool #i #i can

The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses. ↗

— Lowell Thomas

#credit #given #man #out #possesses

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#great #material #men #possessions #small

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. ↗

— Plutarch

#excellent #extent #i #knowledge #possessions

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#being #bombed #britain #burned #democracy

The possessions of the rich are stolen property. ↗

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#property #rich #stolen

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want. ↗

— Jean Racine

#am #everything #i #nothing #possess