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Contemplating Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same…
- To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political servitude, were never…
- To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would…
- So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say;…
- All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
More Contemplating Quotes
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky,… — Sai Baba
- In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does… — Saint Basil
- Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. — Ambrose Bierce
- Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or… — Tony Blair
- It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to… — William S. Burroughs
- Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. — Thomas Aquinas
- That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity — Ambrose Bierce
- It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
- He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
- Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others — Milarepa
- When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt… — Thomas Paine