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contemplative
«Behind their lively, searching eyes one senses a doubting, a contemplative personality, always trying to make sense out of a puzzling world.»
Author: Adriaan Kortlandt
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World
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contemplative, doubting, livelier, lively, make sense, puzzling, searching
«The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.»
«From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind.»
«Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.»
Author: John Donne
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bookish, contemplative, contend, controversies, Judges, of necessity, quarrelsome, witnesses
«Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
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adapted, contemplation, contemplative, so as to, The Practice, The Works
«The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish: it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author, Novelist)
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benevolent, contemplative, draws, generates, pipe, shuts, The Philosopher, thoughtful, unaffected
«The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
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contemplative, energize, energized, energizes, energizing, passive, write out