[Idiom] content / contentment

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Ashiuhto

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Are the following sentences acceptable? Which one is more natural?

1. It goes without saying that bliss lies in contentment.
2. It is a doubtless principle that bliss derives from contentment.
3. Happiness consists in contentment.
4. Enough is as good as feast.
5. A contented mind is a perpetual feast.
6. Happiness lies in content.
7. Content is more than a kingdom.
8. Content is happiness.
 

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Not a well-formed question. An appropriate reply would entail an essay of several thousand words.
 

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Are the following sentences acceptable? Which one is more natural?

1. It goes without saying that bliss lies in contentment.
2. It is a doubtless principle that bliss derives from contentment.
3. Happiness consists in contentment.
4. Enough is as good as feast.
5. A contented mind is a perpetual feast.
6. Happiness lies in content.
7. Content is more than a kingdom.
8. Content is happiness
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6, 7 and 8 are wrong. Use "contentment" for the noun. Note that 'content' is stressed on the end syllable the way you've used it. Most people would read this as 'content' - The content of something is what it contains.
Use 'content' as the adjective. A contented person is content. He has contentment.
4. is interesting, but not sure why it's there!
 

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