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Meditation: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give, And study how to die, not how to live. GEO. GRANVILLE (Lord Lansdowne)- Meditation on Death. St. 1. Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined, Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power, - Thoughts that ascend, like angels beautiful, A shining Jacob's-ladder of the mind!— PAUL H. HAYNE — Sonnet IX.

Divinely bent to meditation; And in no worldly suits would he be mov'd, To draw him from his holy exercise.— Shakespeare — Richard III. Act III. Sc. 7. L. 61.

In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Midsummer-Night's Dream. Act II. Sc. 1. L.