Quotes about Possession

Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art.

Yet some say Love by being thrall And simply staying possesses all In several beauty that Thought fares far To find fused in another star.

There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.

Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.

Whoever is not in the possession of leisure can hardly be said to possess independence.

I. A Fast-Fish belongs to the party fast to it. II. A Loose-Fish is fair game for anybody who can soonest catch it. But what plays the mischief with this masterly code is the admirable brevity of it, which necessitates a vast volume of commentaries to expound it.

It was not till the boats returned from the pursuit of these whales, that the whites saw their ship in bloody possession of the savages enrolled among the crew.   Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã¢â‚¬NEWSPAPER ACCOUNT OF THE TAKING AND RETAKING OF THE WHALE-SHIP HOBOMACK.

Such was the transformation which had come over European society in the course of ten Christian centuries. Slavery had gone, and in its place had come that establishment of free possession which seemed so normal to men, and so consonant to a happy human life. No particular name was then found for it. To-day, and now that it has disappeared, we must construct an awkward one, and say that the Middle Ages had instinctively conceived and brought into existence the Distributive State.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.