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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for read more
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a read more
Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are.
It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are.
It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
