"Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content,……" — Robert Greene
"Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown..."
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108 Quotes by Robert Greene
Robert Greene has 108 quotes on this site.
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Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind…
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The quiet mind is richer than a crown....Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes…
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People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.
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Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative…
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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and…
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If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your…
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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone…
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There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.
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Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are…
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More Content Quotes
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
— Hannah Arendt
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A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought…
— Frank Abagnale
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A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they…
— Dave Attell
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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…
— Francis Bacon
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There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.
— Kevin Bacon
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
— Ansel Adams
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There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being…
— Drew Barrymore
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
— Glenn Beck
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Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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