"It is in the contemplation of what you desire that you create what it is you want for yourself"
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"One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature."
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"Let your home be you mast and not your anchor."
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"Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action."
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"The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person."
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"Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent."
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"Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them."
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"I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity."
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