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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

Quote by Walter Pater about objects, literary critic, beauty, power, being

The freedom of speech and the press are two of the most important rights we Americans possess under our Constitution.

Quote by Mike Pence about liberty, press, americans

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

Quote by James Cash Penney about man

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Quote by Pericles about liberty, courage

Liberty one of Imagination's most precious possessions.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about liberty, imagination

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

Quote by Dale Carnegie about nation, wealth, worry, people

The cardinal elements possess this title through the fact that they are the last frontier to the level of awareness through which that world can be defined. Life and Death are cardinal because nothing can include them in its structure by becoming...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about destiny, world, dream, death, nothing, life

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Quote by Henry Ward Beecher about goodnes, people, knowledge, money, nature, good, good luck

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

Quote by Edgar Lee Masters about opinion, immortality, gifts

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Quote by Carl Sandburg about anger, nothing

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Quote by Thomas Browne about people, city, truth, man

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Quote by William Pitt about power

To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.

Quote by Jean-François Regnard about things

To be witty is not enough. One must possesses sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

Quote by André Maurois about humor

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.

Quote by David Livingstone about religion, relation, value

...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated.

Quote by Jorge Amado about truth, eyes, things

Poetry is an excellent game of imagination and intelligence. The more you are in possession of a more serious account in Bank of Imagination and Intelligence, more spectacular the game is.

Quote by Robert Serban about poetry, intelligence, games, imagination, bankers, contentment

Having a right means having something whose possession the society must protects me.

Quote by John Stuart Mill about rightness, society

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Quote by Democrit about happiness, soul

A poem – in front of its own history, before projecting its promised destiny in the precise habiat of the imaginary, between reality and dream, ought to learn how to take in possession the invariant message of the high love of man.

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about eternity