Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The possession of anything begins in the mind.
Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being.
But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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