Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.
It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.
Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
Shane Watson seems to have recovered very well from his hamstring injury.
More people deserted our party and we have never recovered.
Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered.
Britain's unions were broken and battered by Thatcherism and never recovered.
I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
I dropped my prompt cards in front of Josh Hartnett once and I've never recovered.
Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.
Arrow! Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and I have always recovered you. I had you from my father and he from of old. If ever you came from the forges of the true king under the Mountain, go now and speed well!
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.