"Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction."
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"If we feel secure In the depths of our heart, We shall not challenge anybody, For inner confidence Is nothing short of Complete satisfaction."
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"The satisfaction of life May not be ours, But the beauty of hope Is all ours."
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"The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they're not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow."
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"Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?"
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"There's a certain satisfaction in a little bit of pain."
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"Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction."
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"Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent."
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"Whoever is capable of knowing when they have had enough will always be satisfied."
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""I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.""
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"Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to."
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"It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man."
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"Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy."
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"One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated."
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"What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit."
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"My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us."
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"Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself."
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"When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which again have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation... when I consider all this... I am silent."
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"The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the consequence."
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"If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good."
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