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possessions
«Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.»
Author: John Randolph
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Time
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at once, most-valuable, perishable, perishables, possessions, valuable
«Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.»
Author: Mohandas Gandhi
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helps, nothingness, pale, pales, palest, paling, pleasures, possessions, rendered, servant, served, The Servant
«Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.»
Author: Stefan Kanfer
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Sorrow
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accumulate, accumulates, accumulating, explained, loss, possessions, sorrows
«There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
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Freedom
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artist, Between Two Worlds, freedom, kinds, monk, possessions, powerful, renounces, renouncing, rich, The Monk, The Monks
«Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
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despotism, fetter, fettered, fetters, in fetters, possessions, secured
«To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.»
Author: Peace Pilgrim
(Spiritual leader, Teacher)
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actually, alignment, attain, at last, beliefs, bringing, inner, Inner peace, possessions
«Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.Today can be a healthy unusual day for you -- and for others -- if you take time to give someone a smile . . . to express a word of kindness . . . to lend a helping hand to someone in need . . . to write a note of gratitude . . . to give a word of encouragement to someone who is temporarily overcome with problems . . . to share a portion of your material possessions with others.»
Author: William Arthur Ward
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encouragement, express, gratitude, healthy, helping, helping hand, lend, material, note, overcome, portion, portion out, possessions, share, taking possession, temporarily, unusual
«TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping nations are in the forefront of civilization and power. When pitted against the hard-drinking Christians the absemious Mahometans go down like grass before the scythe. In India one hundred thousand beef- eating and brandy-and-soda guzzling Britons hold in subjection two hundred and fifty million vegetarian abstainers of the same Aryan race. With what an easy grace the whisky-loving American pushed the temperate Spaniard out of his possessions! From the time when the Berserkers ravaged all the coasts of western Europe and lay drunk in every conquered port it has been the same way: everywhere the nations that drink too much are observed to fight rather well and not too righteously. Wherefore the estimable old ladies who abolished the canteen from the American army may justly boast of having materially augmented the nation's military power.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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abolished, abstainer, abstainers, American Army, American civilization, American elder, Aryan, augment, augmented, augmenting, augments, beef, bib, boast, booze, brandies, brandy, Briton, Britons, canteen, coasts, disesteem, disesteemed, estimable, forefront, go down, guzzle, guzzling, hold in, hundred thousand, India, justly, lush, military power, observed, one hundred, one hundred fifty, pitted, port, possessions, pushed, push down, ravage, ravaged, ravages, righteously, scythe, soak, soda, Spaniard, subjection, swig, swill, swilling, temperate, The Hard, tipple, tippled, tippling, tope, toping, two hundred, vegetarian, Western, wherefore, whiskies, whisky
«The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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ambitions, capacities, Happy ending, possessions, proportion, The Happy Ending, virtuous
