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• REFLECTION, n. An action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
  Taoist Proverb...
• No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
  -- The wisdom of the Taoi...
• No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
  -- Edgar Dega...
• The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun.
  The brightness of our life is gone, shadows of the evening fall around us, and the world seems but a dim reflection itself- a broader shadow....
• It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
  -- Samuel Johnson, Boswell's Life, 1770...
• By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noble
  Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest....