There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... Observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and row 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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There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
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Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?
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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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They only babble who practise not reflection.
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Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
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Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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A lively, disinterested, persistent liking 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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Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged
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Democracy is the art of thinking independently together
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Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
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A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living
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What a cruel reflection that a rich country cannot long be a free one.
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Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
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Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.
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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation [and] is but a reflection of human frailty.
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Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart
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The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom
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Do not mix de galloping of your horse, my knight, with the beating of your heart.
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