“ I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
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“ When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things — not the great occasions — that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness. ”
- Bob Hope- Copy
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“ The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast. ”
- Robertson W. Neicoll- Copy
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“ So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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“ In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth. ”
- Malcolm Muggeridge- Copy
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“ Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. ”
- J. K. Rowling- Copy
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“ The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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“ Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence. ”
- Henry Fuseli- Copy
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“ I do not really look back with regret on any feelings or problems I have had in the past. I think I am more able to accept problems as being part of the rough and tumble of life. There are bound to be ups and downs. In retrospect, when you've gotten pasty a tough period, it makes the good things that much better. ”
- Graham Chapman- Copy
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