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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Non tihi illud apparere si sumas potest. If you spend a thing you can not have it. Plautus—Trinummus. II. 4. 12. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Herbert) Nihil enim seque gratum est adeptis, quam concupiscentibus. An object in possession seldom retains the same charms which it had when it was longed for. Pliny the Younger—Epistles. II. 15. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Possession | page = 616 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = La propriety, c'est le vol. Property, it is theft. Prud'hon—Principle of Right. Ch. I. Attributed to Fournier by Louis Blanc— Organization du Travail. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Brissot}}) | topic = Possession | page = 616 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The goods we spend we keep; and what we save We lose; and only what we lose we have. Quarles—Divine Fancies. Bk. IV. Art. 70. Early instances of same in Seneca—De Beneficiis. LVI. Ch. III. Gesta Romanorum. Ch. XVI. Ed. 1872. P. 300. Jeremy Taylor. Note to Holy Dying. Ch. II. Sec. XIII. Vol. III. of Works. C. P. Eden's ed. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Martial}}, also {{sc|Courtenay}} under {{sc|Epitaphs, Miller}} under {{sc|Gifts}}) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Possession | page = 616 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ich heisse Der reichste Mann in der getauften Welt; Die Sonne geht in meinem Staat nicht unter. | trans = I am called the richest man in Christendom. The sun never sets on my dominions. | author = Schiller | work = Don Carlos. | place = I. 6. 60. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Gage}}) | topic = Possession | page = 616 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The king of Spain is a great potentate, who stands with one foot in the east and the other in the west; and the sun never sets that it does not shine on some of his dominions. | author =Balthasar Schuppius | work = Abgenotigte Ehrenrettung. | note = (1660) | seealso = (See also {{sc|Gage}}) | topic = Possession | page = 616 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V. | author = Scott | work = Life of Napoleon. | place = Ch. LIX. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Gage}}) | topic = Possession | page = 616 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 17 | text = That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours. | author = | work = Much Ado About Nothing. | place = Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 220. | topic = Possession | page = 616 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 18 | text = I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip. | author = R. B. Sheridan | work = Duenna. Air. | place = Act I. Sc. 2. | topic = Possession | page = 616 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 19 | text = Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king. | author = Captain John Smith | work = Advertisements for the Unexperienced, etc. | note = Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. Third Series. Vol. III. P. 49. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Gage}}) | topic = Possession | page = 616 }}