| 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. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author:
Wilde, OscarEra:
1854 |
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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. -- Tupper |
| Author:
TupperEra:
1810 |
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| Let no sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou hast thrice re- viewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turn-ed aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What haveI left undone, which I ought to have done? Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good. -- Buddha |
| Author:
BuddhaEra:
-568 |
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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. -- Thomas Paine |
| Author:
Paine, ThomasEra:
1737 |
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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? -- Akhenaton |
| Author:
AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs. -- Edward Young |
| Author:
Young, EdwardEra:
1683 |
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| They only babble who practise not reflection. -- Richard B. Sheridan |
| Author:
Sheridan, Richard B.Era:
1751 |
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