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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.»
Author: Anna Mary Robertson Moses | About: Hope, Mankind, Memory | Keywords: backward, backward and forward, look backward, painter, paints, paint a picture, pictures, recorded
«Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.»
Author: Georges Duhamel (Author, Novelist, Poet) | About: Memory | Keywords: holes, net, prizes, slip
«A place in thy memory, dearest, Is all that I claim; To pause and look back when thou hearest The sound of my name»
Author: Gerald Griffin | About: Memory | Keywords: claim, dearest, look back, pause, The Sound
«Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.»
Author: Saul Bellow (Novelist) | About: Memory | Keywords: insignificance, The Wolf, wolf
«Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.»
Author: Thomas More (Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman) | About: Memory | Keywords: fond
«Creditors have better memories than debtors; creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times»
Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | About: Memory | Keywords: creditor, creditors, debtors, observers, sect, superstitious
«Every man's memory is his private literature.»
Author: Aldous Huxley (Critic, Novelist) | About: Literature, Memory | Keywords: literature, private
«A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard | About: Memory | Keywords: Good Thing, retentive, The Tokens, token
«A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | About: Memory | Keywords: airy, beckon, beckoned, beckoning, beckons, calling, desert, dire, direr, direst, fantasies, sands, shadows, shapes, shores, syllable, syllables, throng, thronged, thronging, tongues, wildernesses
«Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | About: Memory | Keywords: remembered, remembers
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