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Reflection: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.— FROUDE — Short Studies on Great

Subjects. Sea Studies. The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.— POPE — Essay on Criticism. Pt. III. L. 180.

But with the morning cool reflections came.— SCOTT — Chronicles of the Canongate. Ch. IV.

Think on thy sins.— Shakespeare — Othello. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 40.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.— YOUNG — Night Thoughts. Night V. L. 596.