CONTENTMENT
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Be content with your lot ; one cannot be first in everything.—AESOP, The Peacock and Juno
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I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.—Bible, Philippians 2:11
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Who lives content with little possesses everything.—BOILEAU
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Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.—G. K. CHESTERTON
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I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.—F. M. COLBY, Essays
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Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content;
The quiet mind is richer than a crown.—ROBERT GREENE, Farewell to Folly
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In this world he who possesses a morsel of bread, and some nest in which to shelter himself, who is master or slave of no man, tell that man to live content; he possesses a very sweet existence.—OMAR KHAYYAM
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A strong determination to get the best out of life, a keen desire to enjoy what one has, and no regrets if one fails: this is the secret of the Chinese genius for contentment.—LIN YUTANG, My Country and My People
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He may very well be contented that need not lie nor flatter.—Proverb
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'Tis better to be lowly born,
And range with humble livers in content,
Than to be perked up in a glistering grief
And wear a golden sorrow.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII
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Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
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One honest John Tompkins, a hedger and ditcher,
Although he was poor, did not want to be richer;
For all such vain wishes in him were prevented
By a fortunate habit of being contented.—JANE TAYLOR, Contented John
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Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
Strong and content I travel the open road.—WALT WHITMAN, Song of the Open Road
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