"Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.
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“Discontent is the seed of ethics.”
“I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or not; but mainly to the mass of men who are discontented, and idly complaining of the hardness of their lot or of the times, when they might improve them.”
“Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.”
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