Recollect Quotes
59 quotes by 54 authors
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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…
— Joseph Addison
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Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot…
— Alexander Hamilton
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One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not to let it wander too…
— Brother Lawrence
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To what level does your patriarchal blessing reach in your life? Can you recollect the time you received it and recover any of the spirit…
— Truman G. Madsen
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My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments, at which those who may…
— James Boswell
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As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself to be in…
— Thomas Huxley
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I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one recounts; I think…
— Harold Brodkey
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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…
— Walter Scott
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Those who knew Benjamin Franklin will recollect that his mind was forever young, his temper ever serene; science, that never grows gray, was always his…
— Thomas Paine
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The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the…
— Richard van der Riet Woolley
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Never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed.
— Fanny Burney
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Though I am alive now, I do not believe an old man's pessimism is nessessarily truer than a young man's optimism simply because it comes…
— Richard Rodriguez
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Do you think that civilization advances because of things written in books? Not a bit of what is written in books ever got there until…
— Walter Russell
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It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of…
— Charles Sturt
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It is said that brother Joseph in his lifetime declared that the Elders of this Church should step forth at a particular time when the…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Recollect your thoughts don't get caught up in the mix ,cause the media is full of dirty tricks.
— Tupac Shakur
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When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me,…
— Helen Keller
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But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows; He knows Himself and you and me and all things; and His…
— Charles Kingsley
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