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«The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. If he loves, it is not to give himself, to blend in fecund union with another being, but to meditate on his love. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves.»
Author: Emile Durkheim
(Sociologist)
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«The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny.»
Author: Ming Fu Wu
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deeds, earn, effects, for good, inescapable, inevitable, meditate, meditated, postponed, postpones, postponing, punishment, reward, wages
«The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?»
«The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
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author, event, meditated, performance, sincerely, The Author
«Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.»
«It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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infinity, meditated, meditating, mysterious, ritual, seemed, solemnities, solemnity, transaction, transactions
«All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.»
«I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Father, grave, gravely, meditated, meditating, old person, persons, suppose, themes
«I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius where reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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entering, foreseen, meditated, secretly, undertaking, unexpected
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