retrospection

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Looking back is best that is left,    Or if it be before, Retrospection is prospect's half,    Sometimes almost more.

From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Dickinson, Emily

"Retrospection," by Kathleen Baldwin, is likewise a poem of high order, and of fairly regular metre, evidently following comparatively recent models in technique.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)

Looking back is best that is left,   Or if it be before, Retrospection is prospect's half,   Sometimes almost more.

From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Third Series by Todd, Mabel Loomis

This Interrogatory put Zadig in a Moment upon a Retrospection of all his past Adventures.

From Zadig Or, The Book of Fate by Voltaire

Retrospection, reflections that life is but transitory, succeeded by joy at what is still left us, and good resolutions for the future; and yet to-morrow is a mere repetition of yesterday.

From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold