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Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes. -- John Keats
Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place. -- William Wordsworth
All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive. -- Madame de Stael
While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. -- Alexander Pope
Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts. -- Honore de Balzac
Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The misapprehension about me is that I am some loud, rampant maniac. I am actually very pensive and quiet. -- Brian Blessed
I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen. -- Bob Dylan
Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years! -- William Wordsworth
Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks. -- Roland Barthes
Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train. -- John Milton
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
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 -- William Wordsworth
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. -- Khushwant Singh
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
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
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
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
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock. -- Henry Ward Beecher
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless. -- Nelson DeMille
With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears. -- John Milton
Just had lunch with the president who seems pensive, slightly deflated, realistic, aggravated and resolute. Didn't eat his pie. -- Katie Couric
Those who commit suicide, pensive, lonely, philosophers, are awake in life, which is a serious crime. In life everybody must be asleep. -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
I arrived at school pensive, introverted, and not very sporty, so magic became a place of mystery and intrigue, an escape for my boyish mind. -- Drummond Money-Coutts
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. -- Emily Bronte

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