#possessed

Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach. ↗

— James Wolfe

#certain #confidence #dangerous #foe #full

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else. ↗

— Brian May

#excitement #grit #guitar #kind #nothing

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#against #anger #directed #effects #goes

Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist. ↗

— Alfred Sisley

#beholder #craft #highest #his #loveliness

When you feel terribly angry, you're possessed by anger ghost. ↗

— Toba Beta

#ghost #possessed #anger

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be. ↗

— James Broughton

#hard #image #like #most #ought

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. It was strange to see Takver take a leaf into her hand, or even a rock. She became an extension of it, it of her. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#fantasy #nature #science-fiction #the-dispossessed #death

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#denies #fantasies #far #fill #flock

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost. ↗

— Douglas Haig

#become #defending #good #infantry #lost