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These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite,… — Rudyard Kipling
Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I prayed a sincere and… — Charlotte Bronte
The measure of happiness is merely the difference between expectations and outcomes. It is not concerned with what one possesses – it is concerned with… — Cecilia Dart-Thornton
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit… — Nicholas Sparks
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who… — Khalil Gibran
There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or… — Azar Nafisi
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than… — Samuel Johnson
True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth. — Umberto Eco
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must… — W. Somerset Maugham
Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about. — Cory Doctorow
I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen. — Truman Capote
There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content… — Lin Yutang
Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes. — Machado de Assis
Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion,… — Terence McKenna
Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is… — Ayn Rand
It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this… — Albert Einstein
He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed in forms so… — Mark Helprin
There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky,… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
Most people go through their whole lives," John went on, "and never have one miracle happen to them. You've had dozens and dozens, and you… — Martha Beck
Look!You want to see? See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's face! Now you know the face of… — Gaston Leroux
I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying… — C.S. Lewis
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know… — Epictetus
My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called… — William Shakespeare
On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but… — Jose Ortega y Gasset

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