Quotes
Quotes about Content
He that holds fast the golden mean,
And lives contentedly between
The little and the great,
Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door.
Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair.
This is the last of earth! I am content.
Past are three summers since she first beheld
The ocean; all around the child await
Some exclamation of amazement here.
She coldly said, her long-lasht eyes abased,
Is this the mighty ocean? is this all?
That wondrous soul Charoba once possest,--
Capacious, then, as earth or heaven could hold,
Soul discontented with capacity,--
Is gone (I fear) forever. Need I say
She was enchanted by the wicked spells
Of Gebir, whom with lust of power inflamed
The western winds have landed on our coast?
I since have watcht her in lone retreat,
Have heard her sigh and soften out the name.
In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.
Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
A sweet content
Passing all wisdom or its fairest flower.
Yes, in the poor man's garden grow
Far more than herbs and flowers--
Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind,
And joy for weary hours.
The right honorable gentleman [Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke] is the first of the new party who has retired into his political cave of Adullam and he has called about him everyone that was in distress and everyone that was discontented.
To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ of the first upgrowth of all virtue.
Under the yaller pines I house,
When sunshine makes 'em all sweet-scented,
An' hear among their furry boughs
The baskin' west-wind purr contented.
Let the long contention cease!
Geese are swans and swans are geese!
The all-enclosing freehold of Content.
Oh, bring again my heart's content,
Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!
Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most persons would be contented to take their own and depart.
Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied.
Yet could I these two days have spent,
While still the autumn sweetly shone,
Ah, me! I might have died content
When I had looked on Carcassonne.
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
A man of strife and a man of contention.
I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
A poem isnât important because of the biographical truth of the content.
The content of music is tension and release, and its non-musical referents lie in a sphere of generalities that may be rolled into the arena of a political or moral tenet, but in itself music is apolitical and amoral.
Any serious literary artist envies music, which has an apparently self-referrÃng language, cannot preach or inform, and totally identifies form and content
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
