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Holbrook Jackson, fully George Holbrook Jackson
The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.
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Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at ease, and above the world. But the law of association often makes those who begin by loving old as a servant finish by becoming themselves its slaves; and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth without independence.
Association | Law | Men | Riches | Wealth | Will | World | Riches | Association | Old |
Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself.
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Revelation does not flow from the unconscious; it is master of the unconscious, it takes possession of the existent human element and recasts it; revelation is encounter's pure form.
Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon I
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
Riches |
The first act in which the state really comes forward as the representative of society as a whole - the taking possession of the means of production in the name of society - is at the same time its last independent act as a state. The interference of the state power in social relations becomes superfluous in one sphere after another, and then ceases of itself. The government of persons is replaced by the admission of things and the direction of the processes of production. The state is not “abolished,” it withers away.
Government | Means | Power | Society | Time | Society | Government |
Jealousy is a species of fear which is related to the desire we have to preserve to ourselves the possession of some thing.
Saint Gregory, aka Pope Gregory I, St. Gregory the Dialogist, "Gregory the Great" NULL
The possession of virtue… is always abundant for those who desire it, not like the possession of the earthly, in which those who divide it off into pieces for themselves must take their share from that of the other, and the gain of the one is the neighbor’s loss. From this, because of hatred of loss, arise fights concerning wealth. But the wealth of [virtue] is unenvied, and he who [gains] more brings no penalty to him who is worth of also participating equally in it.
Man is, properly speaking based upon hope; he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own. A greater vividness and permanency of impression is secured, and facts thus acquired become registered in the mind in a way that mere imparted information can never produce.
Impression | Knowledge | Labor | Mind | Property |