Famous quotes containing the words spirits and/or possess:
“They who have considered our nature, affirm that shame and disgrace are two of the most insupportable evils of human life: the courage and spirits of many have masterd other misfortunes and borne themselves up against them; but the wisest and best of souls have not been a match for these.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“Old Drayton thought that a man that lived here, and would be a poet ... should have in him certain brave, translunary things, and a fine madness should possess his brain. Certainly it were as well, that he might be up to the occasion.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)