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Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
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Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
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A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.
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The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business…
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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
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The loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.
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Make it a rule and pray to God to help you keep it . . . never, if possible, to lie down…
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Those clouds are angels' robes.
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Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each…
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[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and…
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For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
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[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only…
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Be content to seem what you really are.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
— Lauren Bacall
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he…
— Francis Bacon
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People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
— John Fowles
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Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
— Aesop
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True contentment comes with empathy.
— Tim Finn
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in…
— K D Lang
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I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
— Aaron Allston
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When God is all you have, then all you have, is all you need.
— Max Lucado
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