Beauty is a possession not our own. [ Bion ]
The sunset glow of self-possession. [ Chamfort ]
You shall cause to take possession. [ Law Writ ]
The stampede of our self -possession. [ Rivarol ]
Possession is eleven points in the law. [ Colley Gibber ]
Possession is eleven points of the law. [ Proverb ]
Prospect is often better than possession. [ Proverb ]
Not possession but use is the only riches. [ Proverb ]
Care that is once enter'd into the breast
Will have the whole possession ere it rest. [ Johnson ]
Bliss in possession will not last;
Remember'd joys are never past;
At once the fountain, stream, and sea.
They were, - they are, - they yet shall be. [ Montgomery ]
A good hope is better than a bad possession. [ Proverb ]
Each passing year robs us of some possession. [ Horace ]
Self-possession is the backbone of authority. [ Haliburton ]
Great expectations are better than poor possession. [ Cervantes ]
Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation. [ Racine ]
A daughter is an embarrassing and ticklish possession. [ Menander ]
Love is strongest in pursuit, friendship in possession. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. [ Bacon ]
Possession makes tyrants of some men whom desire made slaves. [ Brignicourt ]
There is no blessing equal to the possession of a stout heart. [ S. Smiles ]
Culture implies all which gives a mind possession of its powers. [ Emerson ]
There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend. [ Socrates ]
I will not change my cottage in possession for a palace in reversion. [ Proverb ]
Love is a disorder that has three stages: desire, possession, satiety. [ Senac de Meilhan ]
Love is the only possession which we can carry with us beyond the grave. [ Madame Necker ]
There are different kinds of love, but they have all the same aim: possession. [ N. Roqueplan ]
Prosperity is often an equivocal word denoting merely affluence of possession. [ Blair ]
Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold can bribe the poor possession of a day. [ Homer ]
A faithful friend is better than gold; a medicine of misery, an only possession. [ Miss L. Barton ]
Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit. [ Selden ]
The profession of riches without their possession leads to the worst form of poverty. [ Spurgeon ]
Be in possession, and thou hast the right, and sacred will the many guard it for thee. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession. [ Beaconsfield ]
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart. [ J. G. Holland ]
The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a contempt for mere external show. [ James A. Garfield ]
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. [ Gregory ]
Perpetual possession is allowed to none, and one heir succeeds another, as wave follows wave. [ Horace ]
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. [ Alexander Smith ]
Not by the law of force, but by the law of labour, has any man right to the possession of the land. [ John Ruskin ]
An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts. [ Juvenal ]
Possession is the touchstone of love: true love finds new ardor, frivolous love extinguishes itself in it. [ Panage ]
The difference between love and possession is that one is an infinite desire, the other a satisfied desire. [ Saint-Prosper ]
Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession. [ Victor Hugo ]
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. [ Hazlitt ]
The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work. [ George MacDonald ]
Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession. [ Henry Home ]
The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity. [ S. Smiles ]
Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but toot into our affections. [ Charron ]
We have the command, to a great extent, over our own lot. At all events, our mind is our own possession; we can cherish happy thoughts there. [ Samuel Smiles ]
True fortitude I take to be the quiet possession of a man's self, and an undisturbed doing his duty, whatever evil besets or danger lies in his way. [ Locke ]
With the possession or certain expectation of good things our demand rises, and increases our capacity for further possession and larger expectations. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Whatever the benefits of fortune are, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them; it is fruition, and not possession, that renders us happy. [ Montaigne ]
Commonsense in one view is the most uncommon sense. While it is extremely rare in possession, the recognition of it is universal. All men feel it, though few men have it [ H. N. Hudson ]
There is but one thing necessary to keep the possession of true glory, which is to hear the opposers of it with patience, and preserve the virtue by which it was acquired. [ Steele ]
A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented. [ Beaconsfield ]
The last word
is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bombshell. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life. [ Swinburne ]
The poetry of the ancients was that of possession, ours is that of aspiration; the former stands fast on the soil of the present, the latter hovers between memory and anticipation. [ Schlegel ]
Many favors which God giveth us, ravel out for want of hemming, through our own unthankfulness, for through prayer purchaseth blessings, giving praise doth keep the quiet possession of them. [ Thomas Fuller ]
No possession can surpass, or even equal, a good library to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures which never cloy. [ John Alfred Langford ]
Civilized society feels that manners are of more importance than morals, and the highest respectability is of less value than the possession of a good chef. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for cold entrees, nor an irreproachable private life for a bad dinner and poor wines. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of. [ Pascal ]
Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at pace, and above the world. But the law of association often makes those who begin by loving gold as a servant finish by becoming themselves its slaves; and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth without independence. [ Colton ]
Knowledge of books is like that sort of lantern which hides him who carries it, and serves only to pass through secret and gloomy paths of his own; but in the possession of a man of business, it is as a torch in the hand of one who is willing and able to show those who are bewildered, the way which leads to their prosperity and welfare. [ Steele ]
Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts, - the ifirst and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts. We shall only differ in degree and not in kind, - just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all, we are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference. [ Coleridge ]