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"Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was."
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"The foundation of joyful independence is being content with yourself, self-love."
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"I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace."
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"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are."
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"The wealth we receive from God will never cause us to weep."
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"On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."
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"He who is contented is rich."
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"Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success."
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"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."
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"There is satisfaction in serving."
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"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."
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"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind."
Forgiveness
"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."
Nature
"Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day."
Reality
"Always the way!" muttered the Jew to himself as he turned homewards. "The worst of these women is, that a very little thing serves to call up some long-forgotten feeling; and the best of them is, that it never lasts. Ha! ha!"
Emotion
"When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people."
Humor
"To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they had been at school, was a most novel and delightful effect."
Reflection
"But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds."
Morality
"My dear Copperfield, he replied. "To a man possessed of the higher imaginative powers, the objection to legal studies is the amount of detail which they involve. Even in our professional correspondence, said Mr. Micawber, glancing at some letters he was writing, "the mind is not at liberty to soar to any exalted form of expression. Still, it is a great pursuit! A great pursuit!"
Creativity
"A word in earnest is as good as a speech."
Communication
"So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me."
Acceptance
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