The sum of all graces is contained in this sincere desire to please thy God, and contentedness in this so far as thou findest it attained.
In a contentednesswith that degree and state which God hath assigned us.
Be exemplary in patience and contentednesswith your state: for that grace should be the strongest in us which is most exercised; and poverty calleth you to the frequent exercise of this.
Be specially furnished with those reasons which should keep you in a cheerful contentedness with your state; and may suppress every thought of anxiety and discontent.
Live in a cheerful contentednesswith your condition; and take heed of an impatient, murmuring spirit.
It was late when I received your letter, asking me to write to you something on contentedness of mind, and on those things in the Timæus that require an accurate explanation.
Plutarch quotes them again "On Contentednessof Mind," § xi.
It does indeed greatly conduce to contentedness of mind to see how famous men have borne the same troubles with an unruffled mind.
So our author again, "On Contentedness of Mind," § xii.
This virtue of contentedness was the sum of all the old moral philosophy, and is of most universal use in the whole course of our lives, and the only instrument to ease the burdens of the world and the enmities of sad chances.
Contentedness of Mason must not be mere contented selfishness, 147-m.
A Mason's contentedness must by no means be a mere contented selfishness, like his who, comfortable himself, is indifferent to the discomfort of others.
We may be reconciled to poverty and a low fortune, if we suffer contentedness and equanimity to make the proportions.
Contentedness in all accidents brings great peace of spirit, and is the great and only instrument of temporal felicity.
No rules can make amiability; our minds and apprehensions make that: and so is our felicity; and we may be reconciled to poverty and a low fortune, if we suffer contentedness and the grace of God to make the proportions.
Contentedness in all estates is a duty of religion; it is the great reasonableness of complying with the Divine Providence, which governs all the world, and hath so ordered us in the administration of his great family.
Their general utility and contentedness of disposition.
And the self-contentedness of the spirit also turns man into animal.
The well-fed man is an animal because satiety is the self-contentedness of the body.
But oh, how sadly at variance with that beauty and contentednessof nature was he who stood amidst such beauty!
She was not aware that it was her capital, because the fact was so wholly a part of the simple contentedness of her nature that she had not thought about it at all.
She did not know she was humble-minded and of an angelic contentedness of spirit.
