Famous quotes containing the word perceive:
“You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars: and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world.”
—Thomas Traherne (16361674)
“You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourists custom.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single
object, and that no man ever can,
Nature here in sight of the sea taking advantage of me to dart upon me and sting me,
Because I have dared to open my mouth to sing at all.”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)
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