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"One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment."
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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."
"The wealth we receive from God will never cause us to weep."
"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."
"Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success."
"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."
"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."
"Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving."
"He who is happy in his hut is better than he who is miserable in his palace."
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"Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might."
"Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life."
"You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you."
"The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving."
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