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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
Honest Maintain Character Possess
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I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet ‘paradise’. More important, I no longer fear ‘hell’. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.

Wish Long Covet Myself
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Dignity Consist Honor Deserve
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Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

Gain Sure Certain Love
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
Real Inside The Possess
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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

Beauty Truth Virtue Vulnerable
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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

Equal Life Harm Health
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Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.

Pledge World Power Humanity
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You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.

Pressure Team Attack Point
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

Lose Dear Permanent You
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Nobly Prevent Free Else
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At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.

Busy Complete Down Ever
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But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Eternal Fade Possession Death
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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient, and polite.

Polite Grow Result Patient
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Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

Possession Precious Most Sure
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If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

Perfect Heaven Give Poor
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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

Act Advantage Better Character
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Architect He Himself History
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Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.

Dignity Break Matter Empower
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Until you change a man's thinking, you cannot change his life, you cannot change his state and therefore cannot change his estate. The extent of your vision is the boundary of your blessing. How far your vision can go is how much you can possess.

Change Life Until State
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We all possess exactly what we need to be our greatest selves.
Exacly Greatest Possess Need
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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.

Freeze Sweet Flood Tears
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I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

Always Aspiring Come Counsel
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Every Friends Goats He
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Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Best Birds Except Possess
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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.

Belong Death Forever Found
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

Christian Civilization Other Possessing
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People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

Being Blood Fierce Fiery
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Liberty Limited Must Order
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Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

Common Consider Hesitation His
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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Administer Bound Community Good
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There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Class Else Money Nothing
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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Ability Anything Anything Else Else
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Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Adolescence Elegance Escaped Future
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Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Confidence Contentment Friend Greatest
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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Based He His Hope
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She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

Character Clothes Had Influence
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Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Charm Conceit Consciousness Danger
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A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

Dwell Feelings Find Governing
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In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

Attribute Young Biological Birth
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I still tour like a man possessed, because I am.
Am Because I Am Like
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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.

Compulsion Denies Fantasies Far
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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Possession Easier Enemy Experience
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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

Achievements Compulsive Continuously Ego
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Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.

Ask Does Give Gratify
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

Every EveryTime Give Happens
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I'm going to compete every possession.
Compete Every Going Possession
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Almost Attempting Display Does
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I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.

Admire Adore Because Gems
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Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty but also in terms of economic and social progress.

Also Economic Freedom Liberty
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