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Letter "P" » pondered
«It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little»
«It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart»
Author: Marjorie Holmes
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clings, customs, every year, Mary, Mary I, pondered, pondering, ponders, spaces
«If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India»
«I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.»
«Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.»
Author: Turkish Proverb
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a hundred, a hundred times, a thousand, hundred, listen, ponder, pondered, pondering, ponders, speak, thousand, thousand times, times
«Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary...»
«But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.»
«BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion. There have been famous babes; for example, little Moses, from whose adventure in the bulrushes the Egyptian hierophants of seven centuries before doubtless derived their idle tale of the child Osiris being preserved on a floating lotus leaf.Ere babes were invented The girls were contended. Now man is tormented Until to buy babes he has squandered His money. And so I have pondered This thing, and thought may be'T were better that Baby The First had been eagled or condored. --Ro Amil»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Amil, antipathies, babes, bulrush, bulrushes, contended, derived, doubtless, Egyptian, floating, misshapen, Osiris, pondered, squandered, sympathies, tormented
«In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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climate, consistent, disposed, Empire, Great Books, India, pondered, ponders, serene, spoke, unworthy
«It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived /forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
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backward, backwards, backward and forward, forwards, intelligible, look backward, pondered, pondering, ponders, position, precisely, Quiet Life, temporal
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