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More Contemplating Quotes

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• Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
• Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the… — Sai Baba
• In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external… — 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… — Tony Blair
• It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career… — 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,… — 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… — Thomas Paine

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