#posses

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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.


Andre Maurois


#enough #having #much #must #possess

Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.


Moses Mendelssohn


#appears #beauty #considered #demanding #far

How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.


Harry Houdini


#any #appear #become #came #church

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.


Whitney Houston


#believe #children #future #i #i believe

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.


Laurence Housman


#going #had #healthy #i #iconoclastic

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.


Shmuel Y. Agnon


#been #burned #gave #god #had

Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.


Carl D. Anderson


#both #charge #counting #electric #great

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.


Barbara de Angelis


#any #cannot #could #enough #force

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.


Saint Teresa of Avila


#endeavor #follies #god #him #like

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.


Charles Babbage


#certain #conferred #degree #holds #knowledge