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Far from our eyes th' Enchanting Objects set,
Advantage by the friendly Distance get.
Author: Guillaume Alexis
Source: A poem against Fruition, from "Poems by Several Hands" published 1685
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I do perceive that the old proverb be not alwaies trew, for I do
finde that the absence of my Nath, doth breeds in me the more
continuall remembrance of him.
Author: Lady Anne Bacon
Source: To Jane Lady Cornwallis
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Out of sighte, out of mynde.
Author: Lady Anne Bacon
Source: To Jane Lady Cornwallis
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Tell me the tales that to me were so dear,
Long, long ago, long, long ago.
Author: Thomas Haynes Bayly
Source: Long, Long Ago
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Oh, I have roamed o'er many lands,
And many friends I've met;
Not one fair scene or kindly smile
Can this fond heart forget.
Author: Thomas Haynes Bayly
Source: O, Steer my Bark to Erin's Isle
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Friends depart, and memory takes them
To her caverns, pure and deep.
Author: Thomas Haynes Bayly
Source: Teach Me to Forget
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If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my
mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. CXXXVII, v. 6)
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The mother may forget the child
That smiles sae sweetly on her knee;
But I'll remember thee, Glencairn,
And all that thou hast done for me!
Author: Robert Burns
Source: Lament for Glencairn
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Yet how much less it were to gain,
Though thou hast left me free,
The loveliest things that still remain,
Than thus remember thee.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: And Thou art Dead as Young and Fair
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To live in hearts we leave behind,
Is not to die.
Author: Thomas Campbell
Source: Hallowed Ground (st. 6)
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When promise and patience are wearing thin,
When endurance is almost driven in,
When our angels stand in a waiting hush,
Remember the Marne and Ferdinand Foch.
Author: William Bliss Carman
Source: The Man of the Marne
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Though sands be black and bitter black the sea,
Night lie before me and behind me night,
And God within far Heaven refuse to light
The consolation of the dawn for me,--
Between the shadowy burns of Heaven and Hell,
It is enough love leaves my soul to dwell
With memory.
Author: Madison Julius Cawein
Source: The End of All
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Remembrances embellish life but forgetfulness alone makes it
possible.
[Fr., Les souvenirs embellissent la vie, l'oubli seul la rend
possible.]
Author: General Enrico Cialdini
Source: written in an album
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
[Lat., Memoria est thesaurus omnium rerum e custos.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Oratore (I, 5)
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
[Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum est posita.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Philippicoe (IX, 5)
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Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start
When Memory plays an old tune on the heart!
Author: Eliza Cook
Source: Journal (vol. IV, Old Dobbin, st. 16)
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd!
How sweet their memory still!
But they have left an aching void
The world can never fill.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Walking with God
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A great many complimentary things have been said about the
faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you
will find them neatly arranged.
Author: Robertson Davies
Source: The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies
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Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most
beautiful prizes slip through it.
Author: Robertson Davies
Source: The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies
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Don't you remember, sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?
Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown;
Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile,
And trembl'd with fear at your frown!
Author: Thomas Dunn English
Source: Ben Bolt
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But woe to him, who left to moan,
Reviews the hours of brightness gone.
Author: Euripides
Source: Iphigenia in Taurus (l. 1,121), (translation by Anstice)
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Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot
shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous
curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the
appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.
Author: Thomas Fuller
Source: Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Memory)
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By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Citizen of the World (no. 3)
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Remembrance wakes with all her busy train,
Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Deserted Village (l. 81)
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Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see,
My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee;
Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain,
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Traveller (l. 7)
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Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
Author: Maurice Baring
Source: None
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
Author: La Rochefoucauld
Source: None
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Author: Montaigne
Source: None
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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
Source: None
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The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
Author: Tryon Edwards
Source: None
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The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Author: Chinese Proverb
Source: None
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He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Author: Michael de Montaigne
Source: None
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There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
Author: James Branch Cabell
Source: None
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It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment -- but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?
Author: Lord Byron
Source: None
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The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.
Author: Don Campbell
Source: None
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The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
Author: Salvador Dali
Source: None
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If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.
Author: Enrico Fermi
Source: None
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Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.
Author: Lactantius Firmianus
Source: None
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God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
Author: J M Barrie
Source: None
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
Author: Edward de Bono
Source: None
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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.
Author: Tim Foley
Source: None
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Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Author: Thomas Fuller
Source: None
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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
Author: William Hazlitt
Source: None
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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Author: Elbert Hubbard
Source: None
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Every man's memory is his private literature.
Author: Aldous Huxley
Source: None
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: None
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I have short-term memory loss, though I like to think of it as Presidential eligibility.
Author: Paula Poundstone
Source: None
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Memories are all we really own.
Author: Elias Lieberman
Source: None
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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.
Author: Lyster
Source: None
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What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
Author: Alfred Mercier
Source: None
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