"That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again."

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"That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again."

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"I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

Content, Fools, Nothing, Vanity

"I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them."

Barry Gibb, English Musician

Content, Nothing, Songs

"Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content."

Robert Smithson, American Artist

Content, Questions

"When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Statesman

Content, May, Mind, Style

"As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language."

Edward Sapir, American Scientist

Content, Fact, Language, Richness

"Be content to seem what you really are."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

Content,

"There's probably a way to use that great content and to live under the radar now and then in order to reach a new audience. That's the thinking I'm talking about."

John Tesh, American Musician

Content, Now, Order, Talking

"Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else."

Hilaire Belloc, English Poet

Content, Nothing

"It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months."

David Rockefeller, American Businessman

Content, Months, Provocative

"Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?"

Charles L. Allen, American Clergyman

Content,

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"Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure."

Poetry

"Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young."

Life

"Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale."

Resilience

"Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed."

Fortitude

"Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write."

Nature

"Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions."

Perception

"The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic."

Conservative

"In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning."

Optimism

"And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man."

God

"The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale."

Freedom