“ Deliberation: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion. ”
- Claudian- Copy
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“ I was unrecognizable to myself; I saw my reflection in a window; I didn't know my own face. ”
- Bruce Springsteen- Copy
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“ I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things I've been through are serious. ”
- Robert Plant- Copy
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“ Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation on how it shall be spent. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life… ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
- 573
“ When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation - 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above ground For any sage's creed or calculation) - A mode of proving that the earth turned round In a most natural whirl called "G. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness. - As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways… ”
- Richard Mitchell- Copy
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“ He who always thinks himself as weak will never become strong, but he who knows himself to be a lion, rushes out from the worlds meshes, as a lion from its cage. ”
- Swami Vivekananda- Copy
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“ Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart. ”
- Patanjali- Copy
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“ The Stormy life can be braved Only by the heart's sunny Meditations. ”
- Sri Chinmoy- Copy
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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. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam. ”
- Charles Babbage- Copy
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“ Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long removes, she discerneth God, as if He were near at hand. ”
- Owen Felltham- Copy
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“ That's not without some deliberation here, without question. ”
- Bill Parcells- Copy
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“ Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing. ”
- Dodie Smith- Copy
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“ It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. ”
- J.R.R. Tolkien- Copy
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“ We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all. ”
- Publilius Syrus- Copy
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“ Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone. ”
- Charles de Gaulle- Copy
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“ Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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