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Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and read more
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
 A soul without reflection, like a pile
 Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.  
 A soul without reflection, like a pile
 Without inhabitant, to ruin runs. 
Let the "Tribune" put all this in its pipe and smoke it.
Let the "Tribune" put all this in its pipe and smoke it.
There are two sides to every coin
There are two sides to every coin
 Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is 
incumbent on me to know my read more 
 Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is 
incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know 
its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very 
atoms. 
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit read more
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in read more
Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?
 The next time you go out to a smoking party, young feller, fill 
your pipe with that 'ere reflection.  
 The next time you go out to a smoking party, young feller, fill 
your pipe with that 'ere reflection. 
 For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise,
 And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow;
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 For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise,
 And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow;
  Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise;
   Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.