The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.
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To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times
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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
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Night is the time to weep, To wet with unseen tears Those graves of memory where sleep The joys of other years.
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She was a form of life and light That seen, became a part of sight, And rose, where'er I turn'd mine eye, The morning star of memory!
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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.
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Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
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Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I 'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there.
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Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain; And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart?
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What needs my Shakespeare for his honor'd bones, The labor of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star y pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?
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Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
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For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
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Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.
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For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
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I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
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Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
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The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
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Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.
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I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendousa crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.
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A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of thingsbut there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
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A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
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