Quotes with recollection

  • The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

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  • André Maurois Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Samuel Johnson He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Virginia Woolf Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Asa Gray I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Stendhal In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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  • Cesare Pavese It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Jean Paul Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Take notes on the spot: a note is worth a cartload of recollection.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Washington Irving The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • George Bernard Shaw We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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