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Possessed Quotes by Rene Descartes
- For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
- If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons…
- So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for…
- The rainbow is such a remarkable phenomenon of nature, and its cause has been so meticulously sought after by inquiring minds throughout the ages, that…
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. — Charles Baudelaire
- Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies… — Joseph Addison
- A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed… — Joseph Addison
- I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words,… — Joseph Addison
- Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. — Edmund Burke
- Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. — Dale Carnegie
- Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper… — Watchman Nee
- Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world.… — Edward McKendree Bounds
- I concluded some time ago that a major part of success of a team, or of an individual, has a great deal… — Dick Bennett
- What is not fully understood is not possessed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe