Quotes with ponder

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• Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.

  ― C. Neil Strait
  American priest and author (1934 - 2003)
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• One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.

  ― Charlotte Brontë
  British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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• The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

  ― Anna Howard Shaw
  American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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• The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood and ponder what values we wish to see expressed and achieved, and what solitudes of identity and reverie we wish to preserve.

  Source: Towards A Canada of Light First Meditation, p. 38

  ― B. W. Powe
  Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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• There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

  ― Norman Douglas
  British Author (1868 - 1952)
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• When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.

  ― James H. Boren
   
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Subjects in these quotes:

• responsibilities
• contemplative
• consolations
• nationhood
• practical
• expressed

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