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81 quotesHonesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Honesty
Don Marquis
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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Happiness
Daphne Du Maurier
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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
Wit
Andre Maurois
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A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.
Exercise
David Mccord
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Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
Duty
George Meredith
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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
Responsibility
George Orwell
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For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
Writers and Writing
George Orwell
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Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.
Wealth
Ovid
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The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.
Self-confidence
George S. Patton
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
Freedom
Pericles
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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
Power
William Pitt
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Experts often possess more data than judgment.
Experts
Colin Powell
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Possession is nine tenths of the law.
Law and Lawyers
Proverb
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Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.
Time and Time Management
John Randolph
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To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.
Discipline
Jean Francois Regnard
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
Duty
John D. Rockefeller
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Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
Possessions
John Ruskin
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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.
Knowledge
Samuel Smiles
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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
Memory
Alexander Smith
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Kindness
Sophocles
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Genius
Germaine De Stael
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Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
Happiness
Jonathan Swift
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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
Lovers
Sara Teasdale
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That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
Virtue
Henry David Thoreau
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Quality will be prized as a precious possession.
Quality
Source Unknown
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun