"One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers."

O'Neill, Eugene on contentment   

"To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power."

Macdonald, George on contentment   

"The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach."

Lin Yu-tang on contentment   

"My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more."

Lamb, Charles on contentment
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"The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless."

Hung Ko on contentment   

"Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence."

Haliburton, Thomas C. on contentment   

"Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness."

Gladstone, William E. on contentment
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"Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire."

Fuller, Thomas on contentment
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"A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity."

Long, Lazarus on self-confidence
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"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence."

Poe, Edgar Allan on self-confidence
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"The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way."

Butler, Samuel on lies and lying
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"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well."

Butler, Samuel on lies and lying
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"Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone."

Bowen, Elizabeth on lies and lying
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"It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation."

Belloc, Hilaire on lies and lying   

"Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it"

Beecher, Lyman on lies and lying
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"Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency."

Addison, Joseph on lies and lying
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"Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you."

White, Stewart E. on self-confidence
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"There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude -- confidence in self."

Seneca on self-confidence
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"Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings."

Macdonald, George on trials   

"God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty."

Marshall, Peter on trials
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"There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's own."

Moore, George on trials   

"Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since."

Sitwell, Dame Edith on trials   

"Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are."

Schlesinger Jr., Arthur M. on trials   

"Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves."

Southey, Robert on trials   

"Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on trials
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"The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on trials
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"To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men."

Tozer, A. W. on trials
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"I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?"

Kennedy, Rose F. on trials
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"All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into."

Howe, Edgar Watson on trials
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"Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy. [Psalms 64:1]"

Bible on trials   

"For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou has tried us, as silver is tried. [Psalms 66:10]"

Bible on trials   

"Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw."

Bierce, Ambrose on trials   

"It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black."

Brown, Charlie on trials
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"There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles."

Charles, Ray on trials
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"If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before they reach you."

Coolidge, Calvin on trials   

"The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it."

Foley, Will on trials
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"God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials."

Gressett, J. K. on trials
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"The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in."

Howe, Edgar Watson on trials
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"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened."

Twain, Mark on trials
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"A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial."

Twain, Mark on trials
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