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Letter "C" » contemplation
«If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.»
«Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.»
Author: Fulton J. Sheen
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Leisure
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contemplation, noiselessness, occurs, rest on, rosebud, rosebuds, The Silence, waterfall, waterfalls
«If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.»
Author: John Dos Passos
(Correspondent, Novelist)
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Writing
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contemplation, forced, of their own, special, work force, writers
«It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
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God
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contemplation, created, equal, equaled, equaling
«It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.»
«Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
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come back, contemplation, data, experiment, Human Relations, impenetrable, inexplicable, in relation to, opacity, relation, relation to, wretchedness
«I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors? eyes ? a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby?s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer)
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aesthetic, commensurate, compelled, contemplation, Continent, Dutch, enchanted, face to face, flowered, New World, pander, pandered, pandering, the Dutch, transitory, vanished, whispers
«Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Life
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contemplation, critical, details, elevated, tasked, worthy
«Hypocrisy is not devotion - speaking words of duality leads only to misery. Those humble beings who are filled with keen understanding and meditative contemplation - even though they intermingle with others, they remain distinct.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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contemplation, duality, intermingle, intermingled, intermingling, meditative
«Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.»
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