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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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"Most people desire comfort and pleasure."
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"True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare."
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"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are."
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"Contentment is what should be our focus rather than expecting miracles."
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"True contentment comes with empathy."
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"I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more."
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"Savour a slow-paced contented life."
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"Better life begins the moment you learn to be content with what you already have."
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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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"We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created."
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"He who knows best knows how little he knows."
Knowledge
"The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it."
Science
"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will."
Society
"All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not."
Mortality
"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."
Cause
"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind."
Politics
"There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world."
Truth
"As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also."
Leadership
"I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another."
Freedom
"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"
Friendship
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