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I die,—but first I have possess'd,And come what may, I have been bless'd.

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A man is not really a true man until he owns his own home, and they that own their homes are made more honorable and honest and pure, true and economical and careful, by owning the home.

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A man has not possession of that of the existence of which he is unaware.

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Possession is very strong; rather more than nine points of the law.

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It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

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That what we have we prize not to the worthWhile it was ours.

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I ne'er could any lustre seeBut where my own did hope to sip.

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For why? because the good old rule And they should keep, who can.

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Nothing but what has visible substance, is capable of actual possession.

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When I behold what pleasure is Pursuit,It thrust aside with unreluctant foot.

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Britannia needs no bulwarks, no towers along the steep:Her march is o'er the mountain waves; her home is on the deep.

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Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of—the air!

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This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Nothing to lose or to gain.

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As having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

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Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, Only belov'd and loving me.

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Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him."

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Property has its duties as well as its rights.

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My apple trees will never get acrossHe only says, "Good fences make good neighbors."

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It maybe said of them [the Hollanders], as of the Spaniards, that the sun never sets upon their Dominions.

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Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?

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Possession means to sit astride the worldInstead of having it astride of you.

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Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, many.

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Cleon hath ten thousand acres,— In a cottage I.

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Property in land is capital; property in the funds is income without capital; property in mortgage is both capital and income.

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Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?

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Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

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What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.

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The goods we spend we keep; and what we saveWe lose; and only what we lose we have.

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The king of Spain is a great potentate, who stands with one foot in the east and the other in the west; and the sun never sets that it does not shine on some of his dominions.

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The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.

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Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.

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Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

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Others may use the ocean as their road;Only the English make it their abode.

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A power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.

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Germany must have her place in the sun.

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People may have too much of a good thing:Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing.

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Lord of himselfe, though not of lands,And having nothing, yet hath all.

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