1. "Who doth molest my contemplation?"
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Quote by William Shakespeare
2. "Inside every pause lived a contemplation"
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Eric Jerome Dickey, Decadence
3. "Contemplation and self-indulgence do not mix."
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Thomas Dubay, Fire Within
4. "There is no art without contemplation."
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Quote by Robert Henri
5. "All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation."
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Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks
6. "The opposite of contemplation is not action, it is reaction."
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Richard Rohr, Silent Compassion: Finding God in Contemplation
7. "Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives."
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Tahir Shah, In Search of King Solomon's Mines
8. "the wild velocity of motherhood, an enforced momentum forbidding contemplation."
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Sarah Manguso, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
9. "He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee."
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Quote by E. Lockhart
10. "Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action."
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Quote by Henri J.M. Nouwen