“Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.”
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“Nothing less will content me, than whole America.”
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
“I cannot be content with less than heaven;
Living, and comprehensive of all life.”
Festus (1839)
Context: I cannot be content with less than heaven;
Living, and comprehensive of all life.
Thee, universal heaven, celestial all;
Thee, sacred seat of intellective time;
Field of the soul's best wisdom: home of truth,
Star-throned.
Source: Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXIII : First weeks of Matrimony; Helen to Arthur
New Leader, April 1, 1963.
1960s
“Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.”
Anarchism: What It Really Stands For (1910) http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_archives/goldman/aando/anarchism.html
Context: Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. The widespread mental indolence, so prevalent in society, proves this to be only too true. Rather than to go to the bottom of any given idea, to examine into it's origing and meaning, most people will either condem it alltogether, or rely on some superficial or perjudicial definition of non-essentials
Entry (1957)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)
