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The heart that truly loves never forgets.
The heart that truly loves never forgets.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
 Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most 
beautiful prizes slip through it.  
 Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most 
beautiful prizes slip through it. 
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet read more
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?
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory
 Yet how much less it were to gain,
 Though thou hast left me free,
  The loveliest things read more 
 Yet how much less it were to gain,
 Though thou hast left me free,
  The loveliest things that still remain,
   Than thus remember thee. 
 A great many complimentary things have been said about the 
faculty of memory, and if you look in a read more 
 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. 
 Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot 
shut, all will drop out of it. Take read more 
 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. 
Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the read more
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.