“ Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue. ”
- Peter Ackroyd- Copy
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“ Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman. ”
- Horatio Nelson- Copy
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“ How often we recall, with regret, that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song. ”
- Jorge Luis Borges- Copy
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“ Some forgive and forget, more forgive and remember, most forgive and remind. ”
- Robert Brault- Copy
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“ A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
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“ Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ A virtuous man will teach himself to recollect the principle of universal benevolence as often as pious men repeat their prayers. ”
- William Godwin- Copy
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“ We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation… ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
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“ Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ True recollection has characteristics by which it can be easily recognized. It produces a certain effect which I do not know how to explain, but which is well understood by those who have experienced it… . It is true that recollection has several degrees, and that in the beginning these great effects are not felt, because it is not yet profound enough… ”
- Teresa of Avila- Copy
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“ We practice conscious forgetting by refusing to summon up the fiery material, we refuse to recollect. To forget is an active, not a passive endeavor. It means to not haul up certain materials, or turn them over and over, to not work oneself up by repetitive thought, picture, or emotion. ”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes- Copy
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“ Your morals and general character are strictly inquired into; it is therefore expected that you will improve every leisure moment in the acquirement of knowledge of your profession and you will recollect that a good moral character is essential to your high standing in the Navy. ”
- Franklin Buchanan- Copy
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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.''. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income… ”
- William Makepeace Thackeray- Copy
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