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Quotations
On Contentment
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- To
secure
a contented spirit,
measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your
desires.—Jeremy
Taylor.
I
press to bear no
haughty sway;
I wish no
more than may
suffice:
I do no
more than well
I may,
Look what I
lack, my
mind supplies;
Lo, thus I
triumph like
a king,
My mind's
content with
anything.
—Byrd.
- Enjoy
your
own life without
comparing it with that of another. —Condorcet.
- To be
content with little is
difficult; to be content with much, impossible.—Marie Ebner-Eschenbach.
- My
God,
give me neither poverty
nor riches; but whatsoever it may be Thy will to give, give me with it
a heart which knows humbly to acquiesce in what is Thy will.—Gotthold.
- One
who is
contented with what
he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has lain
down
to die. The grass is already growing over him.—Bovee.
- Contentment
is a pearl of great
price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires
makes
a wise and a happy purchase.—Balguy.
- He is
richest who is content
with the least; for content is the wealth of nature.—Socrates.
- Learn
to
be pleased with everything,
with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty,
for
not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being
unenvied.—Plutarch.
- Without
content, we shall find
it almost as difficult to please others as ourselves.—Greville.
- True
contentment depends not
upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was
too little for Alexander.—Colton.
Content
with poverty
my soul I arm;
And virtue,
though in
rags, will keep me warm.
—Dryden.
- It is
right to be contented
with what we have, but never with what we are.—Sir James Mackintosh.
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- Unless
we
find repose within
ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.—Hosea Ballou.
- The
noblest mind the best contentment
has.—Spenser.
- I have
learned, in whatsoever
state I am, therewith to be content.—Philippians 4:11.
Poor and
content,
is rich and rich enough;
But riches,
fineless,
is as poor as winter,
To him that
ever fears
he shall be poor.
—Shakespeare.
- If men
knew what felicity dwells
in the cottage of a godly man, how sound he sleeps, how quiet his rest,
how composed his mind, how free from care, how easy his position, how
moist
his mouth, how joyful his heart, they would never admire the noises,
the
diseases, the throngs of passions, and the violence of unnatural
appetites
that fill the house of the luxurious and the heart of the
ambitious.—Jeremy
Taylor.
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