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“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”
Thomas Merton Quotes |
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“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
Peter F. Drucker Quotes |
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“In water one sees one's own face; But in wine one beholds the heart of another”
French Proverb Quotes |
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“Democracy is the art of thinking independently together”
Alexander Meiklejohn Quotes |
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“There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking, and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord”
Thomas Paine Quotes |
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“Do not mix de galloping of your horse, my knight, with the beating of your heart.”
Old Chinese Proverb Quotes |
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“There are two sides to every coin”
Proverb Quotes |
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“Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?”
William Shakespeare Quotes |
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“Can the believing husband in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving wife in Hell? Can the believing father in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving children in Hell? Can the loving wife in Heaven be happy with her unbelieving husband in Hell? I tell”
Jonathan Edwards Quotes |
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“Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quotes |
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“Let the "Tribune" put all this in its pipe and smoke it.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: in the Richmond, Virginia "Enquirer", Feb. 7, 1860
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“The next time you go out to a smoking party, young feller, fill
your pipe with that 'ere reflection.”
Charles Dickens Quotes Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (ch. XVI)
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“The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection
upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so
long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to
fasten itself.”
James Anthony Froude Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Sea Studies
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“Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is
incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know
its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very
atoms.”
Kahlil Gibran Quotes Source: The Philosophy of Logic
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“The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism (pt. III, l. 180)
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“For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise,
And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow;
Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise;
Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.”
Edmund Spenser Quotes Source: The Faerie Queene (bk. V, canto II, st. 43)
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“A soul without reflection, like a pile
Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.”
Edward Young Quotes Source: Night Thoughts (night V, l. 596)
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