Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.
People who know their worth can live austerely; it's the people nagged by the gnawing knowledge of their own cheapness who have that eternal necessity for submerging themselves in what they feel is superlative in material things, as if fine possessions could make them fine.
If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work beyond beyond the time necessary for the reproduction of his means of subsistence, say 8 hours a day.
Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Nothing's really a prized possession except my family, you know?
The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown.
Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries as the possession of a powerful telescope.
Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.
For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection.
Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.
The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.
She might be unarmed, but Rose Hathaway was in possession of many weapons.
A dance is the devil's procession, and he that entereth into a dance, entereth into his possession.
Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world, space is by far the less mysterious. . . . Space is, after all, solid, monolithic. . . . Time, on the other hand, is a hostile element, truly treacherous, I would say even against human nature.
If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest
The gospel assures you that your value is not dependent on your looks or material possessions.
I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.
I must first have the sense of God's possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.