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Letter "P" » pondering
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Samuel Smiles
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at length, difficulty, discoveries, established, hardship, inventions, length, nurtured, pondered, pondering, ponders
«Hence I pronounce this, that as old experience doth attain to something like prophetic strain, so all comely facility traces back to long pondering; intuitions are the reward of ancient gropings»
Author: Stephen MacKenna
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Experience
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comely, facility, intuitions, pondering, pronounce, strain
«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...»
«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
«The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.»
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