#posses

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#attempting #display #does #every #every man

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. ↗

— Eli Khamarov

#definition #liberate #poets #possession #soldiers

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#almost #every #except #gift #possess

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother. ↗

— Satish Kumar

#extreme #go #grew #had #i

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#books #floor #furniture #go #i

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#any #dalai #dalai lama #freedom #freedom of speech

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess. ↗

— Martin Luther

#hands #held #i #lost #many

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession. ↗

— Martin Luther

#burden #choose #contend #god #goes

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. ↗

— James Madison

#afraid #almost #armed #arms #being

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. ↗

— James Madison

#excess #faculties #his #man #opinions