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Of the 18 Lerner-Previn songs, eight are Kate's, full of self-doubt, self-confidence, self-satisfaction and self-recollection.

From Time Magazine Archive

Perhaps self-recollection came back; for after eying the dumb show with uncommonly blank black eyes, both they and she suddenly started into action.

From Say and Seal, Volume I by Warner, Susan

Intervals set aside for self-recollection and the facing of the thought of death are useful aids.

From The Essentials of Spirituality by Adler, Felix

Then he seemed to recover some degree of self-control and self-recollection.

From For Woman's Love by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

Believe me!—a man may love sport, his club, his worldly habits, and yet have his hours of thought, of self-recollection.

From Appreciations, with an Essay on Style by Pater, Walter