"Follow effective action with quiet reflection."
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"Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift."
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"The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves."
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"Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith."
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""Well, we were always going to fail that one," said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather better by telling him how he told the examiner in detail about the ugly man with a wart on his nose in the crystal ball, only to look up and realize he had been describing the examiner's reflection."
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"Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one."
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"Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it."
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"Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day."
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"They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurerance of our identities? I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was so egotist...he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the beautiful comrade, the only inseparatable love...poor Narcissus, possibly the only human who was ever honest on this point."
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"This outward spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden."
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"Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently."
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"There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished belief only with regret. To this I reply: who wishes that there was a permanent, unalterable celestial despotism that subjected us to continual surveillance and could convict us of thought-crime, and who regarded us as its private property even after we died? How happy we ought to be, at the reflection that there exists not a shred of respectable evidence to support such a horrible hypothesis."
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"Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection."
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"I'm like a shark, right at the top of the food chain. I take what I want, when I want. I truly am the reflection of perfection."
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"She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions."
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"Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection."
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"If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways."
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"Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself."
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"Your life is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts."
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"The Bible stresses that a marriage ideally should be a picture or a reflection of Christ's love for His people."
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