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• Let thy discontents be thy secrets

  Benjamin Franklin

  Secret

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.87, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.

  Frank Herbert

  Mankind

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• Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  Despair, Energy, Disorder

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• I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

  Rachel Field

  Confused, Ambition, Thinking

  Rachel Field (1938). “ALL THIS, and HEAVEN TOO”

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• Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

  Ieyasu Tokugawa

  Imperfection, Despair, Rooms

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• One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.

  Matthew Arnold

  Age, Common, Youth

  'Youth's Agitations' (1852)

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• Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

  Edmund Leach

  Secret, Privacy, Source

  BBC Reith Lectures, 1967, in 'Listener' 30 November 1967

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• Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.

  Albert Einstein

  Failure, Men, Infinite Intelligence

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• Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Intelligent, Civilization, Progress

  "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.

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• The discontented man finds no easy chair.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Easy, Chairs

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

  Milan Kundera

  Jealousy, Dog, Evil

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Self, Want

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• There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.

  Garry Kasparov

  Way, Action, Protest

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• Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

  Cyril Cusack

  Trying, Better Person, Divine

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• Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Advice, Comfort

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Measure for Measure”, p.74, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.

  Mason Cooley

  Civilization, Barbarism

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• The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Appreciation, Intellectual, Criticism

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• Discover your own discontent, and be grateful, for without divine discontent there would be no creative force.

  Deepak Chopra

  Grateful, Creative, Would Be

  Deepak Chopra (1996). “The Return of Merlin”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Noble discontent is the path to heaven.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Inspirational, Heaven, Noble

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• For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

  Charles Kingsley

  Noble, Firsts, Germs

  'Health and Education' (1874) p. 20

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• Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision.

  John C. Maxwell

  Vision, Catalyst, Status Quo

  John C. Maxwell (1999). “Twenty One Indispensable Qualities of a Leader”, p.152, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What is more miserable than discontent?

  William Shakespeare

  Miserable

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Richard III, with the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field”, p.15, Classic Books Company

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• Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not well which is the most useful; joy I may choose for pleasure, but adversities are the best for profit; and sometimes those do so far help me, as I should, without them, want much of the joy I have.

  Owen Feltham

  Adversity, Joy, May

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• How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course?
  [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem,
  Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa
  Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]

  Horace

  Doe, Different, Ratios

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• The best things beyond their measure cloy.

  Homer

  Best Things

  Homer (1796). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.81

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