#pondered

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

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I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. ↗

— William Morris

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I pondered what I should do and wasn't sure. Then it just finally became clear. ↗

— Mary Pierce

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