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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Contemplation |
| The act of contemplation then creates the thing contemplated. Isaac D’Israeli—Literary Character. Ch. XII. | 1 |
| But first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation. Milton—Il Penseroso. L. 51. | 2 |
| In discourse more sweet, (For Eloquence the Soul, Song charms the sense,) Others apart sat on a hill retir’d, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will and Fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand’ring mazes lost. Milton—Paradise Lost. Bk. II. L. 555. | 3 |
| When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, ’tis hard to draw them thence; So sweet is zealous contemplation. Richard III. Act III. Sc. 7. L. 92. | 4 |
| Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him: how he jets under his advanced plumes. Twelfth Night. Act II. Sc. 5. L. 35. | 5 |
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