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«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.»
«[She was] a copy editor, possessed of the rare capacity to sit all day in a small cubicle, like a monk in a cell, and read with an almost penitential rigor.»
Author: David Leavitt
| Keywords:
cell, copy, copy editor, cubicle, editor, monk, possessed, rigor, rigors
«Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.»
«Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.»
Author: Peace Pilgrim
(Spiritual leader, Teacher)
| Keywords:
Age to Age, come of age, in this, materialistic, outlived, outlives, outliving, possessed, possesses, possessions, relinquish, relinquished, relinquishing, usefulness
«Gems being precious just cannot be possessed by all and sundry. »
«He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error»
«And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.»
«If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.»
«He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices»
«Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Civilization,
Doing Your Best,
Mankind,
Peace
| Keywords:
atavistic, barbaric, civilization, constabulary, defend, forces, freedom of the will, kept, large, majority, mankind, Peace and Freedom, possessed, survive, unite
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