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Possessions—See [Ambition].
POSSESSIONS, UNDESIRABLE
“The regular practise of the Christian is exceptional with the world,” says a writer in the Pacific Monthly.
“Out in Kansas when the bottom dropt out of the great boom in real estate some years ago, men found it harder to get rid of property than to acquire it. A lawyer going through the country one day met an old friend leading a reluctant cow toward town. Inquiry brought out the information that the cow had been secured in exchange for a city lot. ‘And do you know,’ said the new owner of the bovine, ‘that I turned a neat trick on the old granger! He can’t read a word, and in the deed I worked off two lots on him instead of one.’”
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POSSIBILITIES, LATENT
The diamond unworn is still a diamond. And the power unused is not therefore less real, or less majestic. What men do, is by no means the measure of what they might do, if they used with a rational energy their powers.—Richard S. Storrs.
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Posthumous Blessing—See [Revenge, A Christian’s].