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Letter "R" » recollect
«Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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«RECOLLECT, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.»
«This is the Hour of Lead - Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons recollect the Snow - First - Chill - then Stupor - then the letting go»
Author: Emily Dickinson
(Poet)
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freezing, outlived, recollect, recollected, recollects, stupor
«You give me fresh life and vigour. Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains? Oh! what hours of transport we shall spend! And when we do return, it shall not be like other travelers, without being able to give one accurate idea of any thing. We will know where we have gone ? we will recollect what we have seen. Lakes, mountains, and rivers shall not be jumbled together in our imaginations; nor when we attempt to describe any particular scene, will we begin quarrelling about its relative situation. Let our first effusions be less insupportable than those of the generality of travelers.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
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«A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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Anecdotes,
Maxim
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«I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ''What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.''»
«When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliations of every fault; we recollect a thousand endearments which before glided off our minds without impression, a thousand favors unrepaid, a thousand dutie»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
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