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«If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress»
«Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.»
«Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy»
Author: Robert Burton
(Clergyman, Writer)
| About:
Melancholy,
Music
| Keywords:
dejected, discontent, hearing, pleasing, remedy, woe
«Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.»
Author: Susan B. Anthony
| Keywords:
discontent, rebellion, resolved, revolution, The Men, The Women
«It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
core, discontent, egoistic, intense, self-satisfaction, self love, sensibility
«One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common - discontent»
«Now is the winter of our discontent»
«In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Confidence
| Keywords:
bashfulness, bottle, cowardice, discontent
«Mother Veda is compassionate; she longs to liberate her children from doubt and discontent. She has no desire to inflame or confuse; wise men know this well.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
compassionate, discontent, inflame, inflamed, liberate, longs, Veda
«Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York.»
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