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"True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it."
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"Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving."
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"He who is happy in his hut is better than he who is miserable in his palace."
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"Better life begins the moment you learn to be content with what you already have."
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"I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence."
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"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."
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"The wealth we receive from God will never cause us to weep."
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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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"I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart."
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"Being satisfied with the little we have; academically, spiritually, financially, ecumenically or otherwise will prevent a lot of problems from coming to us, and our dependence in our abilities and talents will go as far as bringing us satisfaction in life."
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"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are."
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"The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world."
Faith
"To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions."
Education
"If one is talking about a vile thing it is better to talk of it in coarse language, one is less likely to be seduced into excusing it."
Communication
"The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things."
Religion
"Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality because reality is a spirit."
Philosophy
"What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not mind contradicting themselves?"
Philosophy
"It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such a portent as a respectable poet. You say you are a poet of law, I say you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not comets and earthquakes on the night you appeared in this garden."
Art
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act."
Philosophy
"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
People
"The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god."
Society
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