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• It's important to prepare audience for the worst in life. People come to forget their problems, and it's my job, right before I leave, to go, "Don't forget: You're going through a divorce and there's a recession." It's always good to end on a pensive note.

  Eugene Mirman

  Jobs, Divorce, People

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• Rightly tired of the pain İ hear and feel, boss... where we's comin from or goin to or why... If İ could end it, İ would. But İ can't.

  Stephen King

  Pain, Tired, Boss

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• He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light die away; when the stars, one by one, tremble through æther, and are reflected on the dark mirror of the waters; that hour, which, of all others, inspires the mind with pensive tenderness, and often elevates it to sublime contemplation.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Stars, Dark, Mirrors

  Ann Radcliffe (2015). “The Mysteries of Udolpho”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.

  William Wordsworth

  Eye, Solitude, Inward

  "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" l. 19 (1815 ed.)

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• I like the church, I like a cowl,
  I love a prophet of the soul;
  And on my heart monastic aisles
  Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles;
  Yet not for all his faith can see,
  Would I that cowled churchman be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Fall, Heart

  'The Problem' (1847)

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• Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Twilight, Despair, Midnight

  Benjamin Disraeli (1853). “The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition”, p.106

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• With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.

  John Milton

  Flower, Embroidery, Pansies

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 142

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• This game the Persian Magi did invent, The force of Eastern wisdom to express: From thence to busy Europeans sent, And styled by modern Lombards pensive chess.

  Isaac Asimov

  Games, Chess, Busy

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• Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Past, Love Is

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• ʺYour hair was beautiful too. All of you. You were amazing when we first met, and somehow, inexplicably, youʹve come even farther. Youʹve always been pure, raw energy, and now you control it. Youʹre the most amazing woman Iʹve ever met, and Iʹm glad to have had that love for you in my life. I regret losing it.ʺ He grew pensive. ʺI would give anything—anything—in the world to go back and change history. To run into your arms after Lissa brought me back. To have a life with you. Itʹs too late, of course, but Iʹve accepted it.ʺ

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Running, Regret

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• You should always aim to be your own mouse, Lieam. In fact...you already are. You are not so quick to jump into danger as Saxon and not as pensive of mind as Kenzie. They rely on each other too much. Saxon knows he can afford to be reckless since Kenzie acts as his conscience. And Kenzie can linger in his thoughts and plans, because he knows Saxon can defend him. I tested Kenzie earlier. I wanted to see if he would be swayed by my advice. It took Saxon's coaxing to make up the greyfur's mind. Be compleete with in yourself young redfur...you will never disappoint. Even in solitude.

  David Petersen

  Advice, Solitude, Mind

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• There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.

  Walter Raleigh

  God, Men, Understanding

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The history of the world”, p.184

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• Careful observers may foretell the hour
  (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r.
  While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er
  Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more.

  Jonathan Swift

  Rain, Cat, Giving

  Jonathan Swift (1984). “Jonathan Swift”, Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press

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• It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.

  Walter Scott

  Enemy, Religion, Looks

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• The fact is, that of all God's gifts to the sight of man, color, is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. We speak rashly of gay color and sad color, for color cannot at once be good and gay. All good color is in some degree pensive, the loveliest is melancholy, and the purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.

  Thomas Starr King

  Gay, Thoughtful, Men

  Thomas Starr King (1864). “The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry”, p.178

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• All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.

  Madame de Stael

  Music, Gay, Occasions

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• You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house - , and you almost stepped out, pensive, to meet me. Streets that I chanced upon, - you had just walked down them and vanished. And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors were still dizzy with your presence and, startled, gave back my too-sudden image. Who knows? Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, separate, in the evening.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Country, Garden, Mirrors

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “You Who Never Arrived”

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• I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle along behind me, dragging against the ground, always reminding me of their presence.

  Maureen Johnson

  Ideas, Iron, Trying

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• Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.

  Edmund Spenser

  Good Day, Night, Long

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser (1874). “The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene: With Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser”, p.598

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• Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years!

  William Wordsworth

  Spring, Years, Snow

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.206

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• Further in Summer than the Birds Pathetic from the Grass A minor Nation celebrates Its unobtrusive Mass. No Ordinance be seen So gradual the Grace A pensive Custom it becomes Enlarging Loneliness. Antiquest felt at Noon When August burning low Arise this spectral Canticle Repose to typify Remit as yet no Grace No Furrow on the Glow Yet a Druidic Difference Enhances Nature now.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Loneliness, Differences

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1346, Delphi Classics

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• Half of me is this wacked-out comedienne who will do anything for a buck and a laugh. Well, at least for a laugh. But the other half is a lot darker, sadder and more pensive. It's the dark side that feeds the outrageousness and allows it to surface. I think that's true for anyone with comic flair.

  Faith Prince

  Dark, Thinking, Laughing

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• Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale gessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.

  John Milton

  Lying, Flower, Glowing

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 142

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