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“Dear little head, that lies in calm content Within the gracious hollow that God made In every human shoulder, where He meant Some tired head for comfort should be laid.”

Should Humans Littles Made Lying Comfort Tired Calm Dear Shoulders Contentment Hollow Gracious

Book:The Poems of Celia Thaxter

Source: The Poems of Celia Thaxter

“Our children, Edward, Agnes, and little Mary, promise well; their education, for the time being, is chiefly committed to me; and they shall want no good thing that a mother's care can give. Our modest income is amply sufficient for our requirements; and by practising the economy we learnt in harder times, and never attempting to imitate our richer neighbours, we manage not only to enjoy comfort and contentment ourselves, but to have every year something to lay by for our children, and something to give to those who need it. And now I think I have said sufficient.”

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.”

Persons Home House Family Comfort Essentials Atmosphere Contentment Tranquillity Home Life

Author:Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

“The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.”

Long Lying Suffering Pleasure Secret Comfort Chiefs Contentment Alas Trifles Great Ones Cultivating Lease Vex Small Pleasures

Author:Richard Sharp

“The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.”

Broken Ought Comfort Labor Longing Simplicity Prosperity Contentment Labor Of Love

Book:Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Source: Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

“But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?”

Ifs Ends Comfort Contentment What If Tranquility

Book:The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

Source: The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

“For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.”

Class Middle Comfort All Things Optimism Fats Hated Contentment Middle Class Mediocrity Prosperous Cursed Steppenwolf

Book:Steppenwolf: A Novel

Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel

“If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.”

Ifs Mind Peace Feet Comfort Quiet Golden Contentment Introvert Quietness Slippers Pilgrims Progress

Author:John Bunyan

“Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.”

Stories Jobs Joy Found Comfort Understood Contentment Stability

Book:A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

Source: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“It seemed a place where heroes could fitly feast after victory, where weary harvesters could line up in scores along the table and keep their Harvest Home with mirth and song, or where two or three friends of simple tastes could sit about as they pleased and eat and smoke and talk in comfort and contentment.”

Two Home Song Three Lines Simple Hero Victory Comfort Taste Tables Smoke Score Contentment Weary Harvest Mirth Three Friends

Book:The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition

Source: The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition