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«The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence»
«The aim of a true achievement must lie, not in futile efforts towards the complete accommodation of man to circumstances in which he chances to find himself, but in the maintenance of a kind of candid discontent, in the face of the very highest achie»
Author: Walter Horatio Pater
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accommodation, accommodations, discontent, futile, maintenance, The Complete
«To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ of the first upgrowth of all virtue.»
Author: Charles Kingsley
(Clergyman, Teacher, Writer)
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discontent, discontented, germ, germs
«The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.»
«Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison
(Inventor)
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discontent, discontents, necessity, restlessness, satisfied, Show Me, thoroughly
«The splendid discontent of God With Chaos, made the world; And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs»
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Chaos, discontent, discontents, Of Man, progress, splendid, springs
«The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Among the Living, apt, conclusion, discontent, dishonest, insane, intolerable, invariably, personally, prevailing, regard, regard to, romantic, romantics, spread, superstitions, taboo, taboos, The Conclusion, the government, The Romantic, tries
«The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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discontent, invigorate, invigorated, invigorates, invigorating, swelter, sweltering
«Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.»
«Suspicion, Discontent, and Strife, Come in for Dowrie with a Wife.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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come in, come in for, discontent, in for, strife, suspicion
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