Quotes 121 till 140 of 223.
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No memory of having starred
Atones for later disregard,
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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart!
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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?
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One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.
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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
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One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.
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Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas - to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.
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Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.
In One Person (2012) 260 -
Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.
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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
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