"Discontent" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this subject would have been useless, I thought it best to appear satisfied, and not, by any expressions of discontent, to hazard new obstacles to the attainment of our ...
— The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII • Various
... extreme form. Many weeks, even months, had to pass before his discontent over the last child of his imagination would become normal. Particularly was this so with the larger works; though each one was started in a fever of inspiration, a longing to reduce to actual form the impossible. He was always ...
— Edward MacDowell • Lawrence Gilman
... Saul with a Spirit of Discontent, and with a Spirit of Envy at poor David, to hunt him like a ...
— The History of the Devil - As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts • Daniel Defoe
... plainly and boldly state their grievances. Let a commission of the best and wisest amongst Irishmen, with some of our highest English judges added, sit solemnly to hear all complaints, and then let us honestly legislate, not for the punishment of the discontented, but to remove the causes of the discontent. It is not the Fenians who have depopulated Ireland's strength and increased her misery. It is not the Fenians who have evicted tenants by the score. It is not the Fenians who have checked cultivation. Those who have caused the wrong at least should ...
— Autobiographical Sketches • Annie Besant
... foolish pride, Or impious discontent, Or aught thy wisdom has denied, Or aught thy goodness lent. ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 - The Guide • Charles Herbert Sylvester
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