#contemplation

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

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I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

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The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation. ↗

— James Monroe

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Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges. ↗

— Russell M. Nelson

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We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives. ↗

— Sonny Perdue

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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice. ↗

— Quintilian

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Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

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Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action. ↗

— James Harrington

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It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

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