“Contentment consisteth not in adding more fuel, but in taking…” Thomas Fuller

Contentment consisteth not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire; not in multiplying of wealth, but in subtracting men’s desires.

In today’s wordsContentment doesn't come from adding more fuel but from taking away some fire; not from piling up wealth, but from reducing our desires.

Thomas FullerCommonly attributed

Source: From the book Quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources, compiled by James Wood, 1893
Also quoted as: Also quoted as “Contentment consisteth not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.”

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