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It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.


Sir James MacKintosh

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GERMANY KENT He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
SOCRATES He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have
SOCRATES We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
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BEAUTIFUL!
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CRAIG GROESCHEL If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
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- All get finded in the hard way.
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DEYTH BANGER Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer...
...

Silence doesn't make it... bet...
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T.J. KLUNE Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.
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That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
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KOWSALAPATHY If you are dissatisfied with what you have,
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ANN RINALDI We sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have -- Power.
MATTHEW BOULTON Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL When I warned them the French that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals to...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Thus, by every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull th...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in m...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.
SIR CLAUS MOSER The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anth...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing...
SIR PETER IMBERT The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH When the critics come around it's always too late.
SIR SIDNEY NOLAN No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pre...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL A camel is a horse designed by committee.
SIR ALEC ISSIGONIS There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the wor...
SIR PETER MEDAWAR I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
SIR NATHAN ROTHSCHILD A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance...
SIR WALTER SCOTT The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
SIR RICHARD STEELE I don't regard Brecht as a man of iron-gray purpose and intellect, I think he is a theatrical whore ...
SIR PETER HALL Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by makin...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Well languag'd Danyel.
SIR WILLIAM BROWNE The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal car...
SIR WILLIAM BROWNE Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave scho...
SIR WILLIAM HALEY