Famous quotes containing the word perceive:
“You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist’s custom.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“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 (1819–1892)
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