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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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"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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"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."
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"Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving."
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"All that is necessary for a student is access to a library."
Education
"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."
Wisdom
"It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it."
Freedom
"If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a belief against all experience."
Education
"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."
Freedom
"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits."
Life
"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."
Freedom
"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it."
Justice
"Delay is preferable to error."
Wisdom
"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."
Leadership
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