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| Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. |
| by Gregory I |
| Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. |
| by William Hazlitt |
| Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. |
| by Thomas Carlyle |
| 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. |
| by Martin Luther |
| This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life. |
| by Thomas Mann |
| The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophesies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. |
| by Eric Hoffer |
| Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession.... Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and ends in something at rest, hence it is that human reasoning, in the order of inquiry and discovery, proceeds from certain things absolutely understoodnamely, the first principles; and, again, in the order of judgment, returns by analysis to first principles, in the light of which it examines what it has found. Now it is clear that rest and movement are not to be referred to different powers, but to one and the same. |
| by Thomas Aquinas |
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