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- I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words,… — Joseph Addison
- And in that moment I possessed and lost the whole world and everything in it and was left with the feeling and… — Ann Rinaldi
- Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano… — James Weldon Johnson
- I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose… — Clara Schumann
- I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me… — Dorothy Day
- I wish I'd known from the beginning that I was born a strong woman. What a difference it would have made! I… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
- Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and… — William Graham Sumner
- So there was not an "I" anymore-not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect-save my limitless capacity for toil that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
- If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced… — Gilbert Harding
- He, who is gone, was one of the very kindest friends I possessed, and yet he was not kinder perhaps to me,… — John Keats
- We kissed, then, and the ardour of her kiss stole my breath away. I returned her passion with all the fervor I… — Stephen R. Lawhead
- I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs… — Stephen Fry