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Let the "Tribune" put all this in its pipe and smoke it.

The next time you go out to a smoking party, young feller, fill your pipe with that 'ere reflection.

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.

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 learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

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.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.