Quotes with retrospect

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  • Malcolm Muggeridge In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in the retrospect.
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Henry Fuseli 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.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Walt Whitman The Past - the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf - the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Paul Theroux Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
    Paul Theroux
    American travel writer and novelist (1941 - )
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  • Bob Hope 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
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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