Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom.
Frederick Douglass
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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.
John Balguy
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They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Pietro Aretino
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A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.
Fred Estabrook
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To the right, books; to the left, a tea-cup. In front of me, the fireplace; behind me, the post. There is no greater happiness than this.
Teiga
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The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.
Lin Yutang
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A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.
Fred Estabrook
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One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has lain down to die, and the grass is already over him.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
Eugene O'Neill
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There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second.
Gordon Graham
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If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
Plautus
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If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
John Bunyan
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