Possessions

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  • Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without.
        Wachowski Brothers   Best?
  • The best richness is the richness of the soul.
        Prophet Mohammed   Best?
  • America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
        Ernest Hemingway   Best?
  • Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
        Sir Francis Bacon   Best?
  • Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.
        Anne Michaels   Best?
  • I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
        Nathaniel Emmons   Best?
  • Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
        Jean Baptiste Rousseau   Best?
  • Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
        Seneca   Best?
  • Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.
        P. J. O'Rourke   Best?
  • Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
        Pablo Picasso   Best?
  • When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
        Nicole Kidman   Best?
  • Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.
        Alain de Lille   Best?
  • Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.
        Unknown   Best?
  • No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • Man's greatest joy is to slay his enemy, plunder his riches, ride his steeds, see the tears of his loved ones and embrace his women.
        Genghis Khan   Best?
  • Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
        Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
  • That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
        Unknown   Best?
  • There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
        Sir Francis Bacon   Best?
  • The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
        Unknown   Best?
  • A healthy family is sacred territory.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.
        Nguyen Co Thatch   Best?
  • The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest of human creature that walks.
        Thomas Bailey Aldrich   Best?
  • All wealth is the product of labor.
        John Locke   Best?
  • Where there is no property, or at least none that exceeds the value of two or three days' labour, civil government is not so necessary.
        Adam Smith   Best?
  • The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  • We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
        Cullen Hightower   Best?
  • Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
        Maurice Setter   Best?
  • I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
        Sara Teasdale   Best?
  • For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
        Marilyn C. Barrick   Best?
  • Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.
        Malcolm Forbes   Best?
  • Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.
        Sylvia Robinson   Best?
  • I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.
        Michel de Montaigne   Best?
  • Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • Horse, you are truly a creature without equal, for you fly without wings and conquer without sword.
        The Koran   Best?
  • If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
        Socrates   Best?

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