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Leonard Cohen
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[The ages of] seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armo
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Sara Lousisa Oberholtzer
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Radiant Day is slowly fading;
and the evening calm and still.
Gazing through the oak and willow;
stoop to kiss the ancient mill.
Listen to the damsel dancing;
to the jig of feed and flower.
And the water wheel revolving;
with the dashing constant p
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John Milton
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When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest upon;What would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwell?Absence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!
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Alexander Pope
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???The God, as it were, addresses each of us, as he enters, with his Know Thyself, which is at least as good as Hail. We answer the God back with EI (Thou Art), rendering to him the designation which is true and has no lie in it, and alone belongs to
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Dorothy Parker
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[this poem may be copyrighted, so it is not for sale from Quoteland or Gifts of Wisdom]
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Socrates
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May memory restore again and again
The smallest color of the smallest day:
Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn.
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Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
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I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me.
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Edward Young
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True recollection has characteristics by which it can be easily recognized. It produces a certain effect which I do not know how to explain, but which is well understood by those who have experienced it. . . . It is true that recollection has several degr
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Denis Diderot
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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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Samuel Johnson
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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Dorothe Deluzy
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We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
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William Shakespeare
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And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.
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William Hart Coleridge
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There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all
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Isha McKenzie-Mavinga
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On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.
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Chinese Proverb
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If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don't drink it.
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Henri Poincare
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To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
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Confucius
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By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
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POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. i., Line 225.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions sense from thought divide!
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Albert Einstein
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How strange is the lot of us mortals Each of us is here for a brief sojourn for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
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Denis Diderot
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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Taoist Proverb
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No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
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Ralph Waldo Trine
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Man is the individualised expression or reflection of God imaged forth and made manifest in bodily form. How is it, then, I hear it asked, that man has the limitations that he has, that he is subject to fears and forebodings, that he is liable to sin and
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I Ching
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Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones.
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Henri Frdric Amiel
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A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.
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David Guterson
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To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective.
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John Quincy Adams
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
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Hugh Blair
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True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.
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Alfred Nobel
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All ideas come from sensation or reflection.--Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of ma
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Sloan Wilson
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And beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questi
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Love therefore??”the most beautiful phenomenon in the soul-filled creation, the omnipotent magnet in the spiritual world, the source of devotion and of the most sublime virtue??”Love is only the reflection of this single original power, an attraction of the e
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George Santayana
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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
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Mitchell Burgess
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If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before.
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Thomas Paine
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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The mirror never sees itself. The reflection never is itself.
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And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.
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There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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"Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me..." - Sisters of Mercy
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"Bother," said Pooh, when he found he had no reflection in the mirror
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"Reflection, surprise, terror.....for the future." - Kosh
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"I'm just like [Logan]. I'm the dark reflection in the mirror." -- Creed
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"Bother," said Pooh, noticing he had no reflection in the mirror
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True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling height
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"Bother," said Pooh, as he had no reflection in the mirror.
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We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
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"For in the reflection of my mind's eye..."-Elm St. Children
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Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
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"Vast ideas are often, on reflection, merely half-vast."
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