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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.

    Advice   Solitude   Mind  
  • Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a dangerous ledge off the lighthouse island floats in on the still air the gentle trolling of a warning bell as it swings on the rocking buoy; it might be tolling for the passing of summer and sweet weather with that persistent, pensive chime.

    Summer   Sweet   Laughter  
  • 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.

    Gay   Thoughtful   Men  
    Thomas Starr King (1864). “The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry”, p.178
  • Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

    Majestic   Sober   Demure  
    John Milton (1874). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited with Introductions, Notes and an Essay on Milton's English by David Masson”, p.191
  • 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.

    Enemy   Religion   Looks  
  • Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.

    William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”
  • For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude

    Lying   Eye   Solitude  
    "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" l. 19 (1815 ed.)
  • That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.

    Eye   Solitude   Inward  
    "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" l. 19 (1815 ed.)
  • Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years!

    Spring   Years   Snow  
    William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.206
  • 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.

    Jobs   Divorce   People  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • 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.

    Lying   Flower   Glowing  
    'Lycidas' (1638) l. 142
  • 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.

    Rain   Cat   Giving  
    Jonathan Swift (1984). “Jonathan Swift”, Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press
  • 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, “You Who Never Arrived”
  • Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

    'I wandered lonely as a cloud' (1807).
  • 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.

    Stars   Dark   Mirrors  
    Ann Radcliffe (2015). “The Mysteries of Udolpho”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
  • In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.

    Wise   Faces   Towns  
    Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We'll talk its pensive hours away.

    Children   Book   Winter  
    Emily Bronte (2007). “Wuthering Heights”, Broadview Press
  • 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.

    Sweet   Fall   Heart  
    'The Problem' (1847)
  • 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.

    God   Men   Understanding  
    Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The history of the world”, p.184
  • I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

    Clouds   Next   Moments  
    Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.136, Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

    Sleep   Giving   Painful  
    'The Dunciad' (1742) bk. 1, l. 93
  • 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.

    Heart   Past   Love Is  
  • 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 (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1346, Delphi Classics
  • 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.

    Good Day   Night   Long  
    Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser (1874). “The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene: With Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser”, p.598
  • That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.

    Ocean   Men   Green  
    William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”
  • With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.

    'Lycidas' (1638) l. 142
  • When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.

    Stars   Night   Mirrors  
    Khushwant Singh (1990). “Delhi”, p.248, Penguin Books India
  • Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.

    George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.414
  • Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.

    Eye   Bored   Pensive  
    John Keats, Jack Stillinger (1982). “Complete Poems”, p.359, Harvard University Press
  • I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

    Lonely   Nature   Spring  
    "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud" l. 1 (1815 ed.) See DorothyWordsworth 1
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