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A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.
Personal righteousness is a choice. Faith is a gift from God, and one possessed of it can receive enormous spiritual power.
The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed.
When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.
It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.
Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.
I possessed what is called the best of hearts -- a dangerous possession, as it is generally accompanied by the strongest passions, and the weakest judgment.
Steve Martin in 'All of Me,' when he did that whole thing where he was possessed by the spirit in his body? It was brilliant.
For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods.
Humans are possessed, to some degree, with the power of foresight. Yet we so often learn things the hard way, through disaster.
I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.
Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas
Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.
Really, Alexia, what could have possessed you to attach yourself to the side of the ship in such a juvenile fashion? It is positively barnacle-like.
Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
The occult powers may be possessed by soul, but if they are not used in the right way it is a loss rather than a gain.
...congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?
All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.
Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantage.
No one is saying you're possessed by the devil anymore except the most ignorant of people in modern culture.
Few big men have possessed the rare combination of power, speed and agility of Shaq.
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.
Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.
So there was not an "I" anymore - not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect - save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more.
Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.
I think you’re possessed.” “Old news.” “Huh. Anyone I know?” “My dad. It’s a family issue I’m working on.
I thought there was a good chance the fridge was possessed. It was subtle about it, but I had its number. I knew its ways. Oh yes.
Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.
At 15, I did a ouija board with my best friend. I pretended I was possessed by a ghost, and she believed it.
I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then 'The Brothers Karamazov' and 'The Idiot.'
My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good?
The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.
I do not believe that since man was in the habit of living on this planet anyone has ever lived possessed of the impudence of Jay Gould.
I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.
I have been compelled to dig deep inside and pull out strengths I never knew I possessed in order to protect my family.
war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.
I went with an exorcist for a bit. I just want to know really practical things, like how do you hold someone possessed by the devil.
Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.
Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.
Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.
If Christ has once possessed the affections, there is no dispossessing of him again. A fire in the heart overcomes all fires without.
It stresses me out writing songs,; I get really super nervous and speedy. I feel like I'm possessed.
Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.
My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.
What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner.
Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.
She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind
What we need and have not got at Westminster are real experience and wisdom, possessed by people who do not view politics as a career.
I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me." "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.
Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.
Nick‘s eyes widened as a total state of befuddled huh possessed him. Was he in the Twilight Zone?
The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.
All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.
To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.
