Contemplation
Contemplation is a thoughtful and searching reflection upon a topic. In religion, it is usually a type of prayer or meditation.
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Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 133.
- The act of contemplation then creates the thing contemplated.
- Isaac D'Israeli, Literary Character, Chapter XII.
- But first and chiefest, with thee bring
Him that yon soars on golden wing,
Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne,
The Cherub Contemplation.- John Milton, Il Penseroso (1631), line 51.
- 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.- John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book II, line 555.
- When holy and devout religious men
Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence;
So sweet is zealous contemplation.- William Shakespeare, Richard III (c. 1591), Act III, scene 7, line 92.
- Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him: how he jets under his advanced plumes.
- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02), Act II, scene 5, line 35.
