A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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It is a curious fact that when we get sick we want an uncommon doctor.. When we get into a war, we dreadfully want an uncommon admiral and an uncommon general. Only when we get into politics are we content with the common man.
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Lovematches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
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Be content with your lot one cannot be first in everything.
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The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
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Who is rich He that is content. Who is that Nobody.
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Who is wise He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful He that governs his passions. Who is rich He who is content. Who is that Nobody.
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Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
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I could be content that we might procreate, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition it is the most foolish act a wise man commits in all his life.
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In this dispensation, God has clearly included the burial and resurrection of Christ along with His death as a part of 'the gospel' (1 Cor. 151-4).. It is God who has set these terms as the content of our faith in order to be saved. This is the METHOD of salvation in this day of grace.
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
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Though the rich man's dinner goes in at his mouth, the poor man must often be content to dine though his nose.
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening... The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.
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I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.
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Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
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The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self there remains nothing more for him to accomplish.
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To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.
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If being wealthy is taken to mean having the means to satisfy one's every want, all but the very poor can become rich as thou at a single stroke of a magician's wand, simply by ceasing to want more than is really necessary for sustaining life. By being content with little and not giving a rap for what the neighbours think, one can attain a very large measure of freedom, shedding care and worry in a trice.
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Author A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
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Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
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