#recollect

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger. ↗

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

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I do not recollect when I had such a mental treat. ↗

— Abigail Fillmore

#i #i do #mental #recollect #such

...and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the mansion-house, or look an adieu to the cottage, with its black, dripping and comfortless veranda, or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart. Scenes had passed in Uppercross which made it precious. It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some breathings of friendship and reconciliation, which could never be looked for again, and which could never cease to be dear. She left it all behind her, all but the recollection that such things had been. ↗

— Jane Austen

#feelings #going-away #memories #parting #recollections

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#cannot #childhood #even #infancy #like

IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#austrian #confused #during #duty #find

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

#had #i #main #order #recollection

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#anything #childhood #desire #else #ever

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present. ↗

— Lisa Unger

#recollection #beauty

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. ↗