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«Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.»
Author: Charles Kingsley
(Clergyman, Teacher, Writer)
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«He has the most who is most content with the least»
«Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.»
«Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.»
«Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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«Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
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«Be content to seem what you really are»
«He is poor who does not feel content.»
Author: Japanese Proverb
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«Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content.»
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