If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before.
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Radiant Day is slowly fading; and the evening calm and still. Gazing through the oak and willow; stoop to kiss the ancient mill. Listen to the damsel dancing; to the jig of feed and flower. And the water wheel revolving; with the dashing constant p
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When the waves are round me breaking, As I pace the deck alone, And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest upon; What would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwell?Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!
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?The God, as it were, addresses each of us, as he enters, with his Know Thyself, which is at least as good as Hail. We answer the God back with EI (Thou Art), rendering to him the designation which is true and has no lie in it, and alone belongs to
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True recollection has characteristics by which it can be easily recognized. It produces a certain effect which I do not know how to explain, but which is well understood by those who have experienced it.... It is true that recollection has several degr
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
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And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.
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There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all
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On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.
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If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don't drink it.
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By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
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How strange is the lot of us mortals Each of us is here for a brief sojourn for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
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No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
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To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
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Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.
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True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.
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We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad
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Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones.
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