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«No one worth possessing - Can be quite possessed»
«The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.»
Author: Bruce Barton
(Congressman)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
baby-faced, disgrace, hallucination, hallucinations, popularity, possessed, theatrical, theatricals, The Elements
«This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.»
«Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.»
«No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
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appeared, commission, commissioned, Commissions, Commission on, crimes, Crime and Punishment, deterrence, emergence, for the first time, initial, initialed, initials, on the contrary, possessed, reappearance, specific, the commission
«The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.»
«Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.»
«The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - a sense of humor and a sense of proportion»
«Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
abandonment, possessed, prudent, self-possessed
«Therefore, to be possessed with double pomp,To guard a title that was rich before,To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,To throw a perfume on the violet,To smooth the ice, or add another hueUnto the rainbow, or with taper lightTo seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.»
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