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"The law of flying was not discovered by the contemplation of things staying on the ground."
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"It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation."
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"Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking."
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"I can recommend nothing better... than that you endeavor to infuse into your works what you learn from the contemplation of the works of others."
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"Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell."
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"Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant."
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"No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram."
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"It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal."
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"That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art."
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"The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness."
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"I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future."
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"All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation."
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"In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess."
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"Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation."
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"Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead."
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"Furthermore, the apostolic life does not exclude contemplation but encompasses it and profits by it to know better the eternal truths it must proclaim"
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"The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation."
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"I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world."
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"the contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation"
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