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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
George Orwell

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

Live, Sleep, Before

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
Jane Austen

Happy, May, Study

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Nothing, Give, Through

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Happy, Before, Hearts

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Great, Honesty, Talent

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Alfred Adler

Emotional, Powerful, Feeling

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
Albert Schweitzer

Love, Earth, Spirit

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
James Madison

Education, Forward, Parents

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Ralph Ellison

Mind, Understand, Said

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

Life, Almost, Qualities

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Positive, Succeed, Demand

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
Robert Burns

Character, Wish, Resolve

Experts often possess more data than judgment.
Colin Powell

Often, Judgment, Data

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Power, Society, Knowledge

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
Nhat Hanh

Love, Person, Ignore

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
Francis of Assisi

Sun, Poverty, Order

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.
Carter G. Woodson

Different, Others, Race

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayana

Knowledge, Mean, Cannot

Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.
Morihei Ueshiba

Nothing, Everything, Possessed

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
Euripides

God, Men, Violence

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
E. M. Forster

Art, Why, Opinion

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
Henry Van Dyke

Death, Someone, Else

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
Dag Hammarskjold

Life, Strength, Away

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

Enough, Avoid, Witty

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

Beauty, Future, Children

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.
Alice Walker

Spiritual, Black, Through

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
David Livingstone

May, Place, Value

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
Joseph Addison

Life, Hope, Dream

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
Stendhal

Great, Men, Woman

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