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«My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more»
Author: Charles Lamb (Critic, Essayist, Poet) | Keywords: contented, motto, wishing
«Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing»
Author: Madeline de Scudery | About: Love | Keywords: contented
«Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.»
Author: Pearl Bailey (Entertainer) | About: Ideas | Keywords: certain, circle, circling, contented, ideas, in a circle, wider, widest
«Self-discipline is crucial to a simpler, more contented life.»
Author: Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama | Keywords: contented, contenting, crucial, discipline, Disciplining, self-discipline, self-disciplined, self, simpler, The Simple Life
«Progress is not created by contented people»
Author: Frank Tyger | About: Progress | Keywords: contented
«Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly»
Author: Jonathan Swift (Author, Satirist) | About: Men | Keywords: contented
«I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | About: Desire | Keywords: contented, desired, pleased
«One whose mind is contented with Truthfulness, is blessed with the Lord's Glance of Grace.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib | Keywords: blessed with, contented, glance
«Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a ''taxing-machine';' to the contented, a ''machine for securing property'.' Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | Keywords: active, appetite, balancing, constable, constables, contented, discontented, duties, emphatically, guided, keen, machine, No Quarter, parish, Parties, party man, quarter, securing, self government, self interest, taxing
«Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room;And hermits are contented with their cells.»
Author: William Wordsworth (Poet) | Keywords: cells, contented, convent, convents, fret, frets, fretted, fretting, hermit, hermits, Nuns
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