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Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never read more
Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
 Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
 [Lat., Memoria est thesaurus omnium rerum e custos.]  
 Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
 [Lat., Memoria est thesaurus omnium rerum e custos.] 
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
 Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start
 When Memory plays an old tune on the heart!  
 Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start
 When Memory plays an old tune on the heart! 
Memories are all we really own.
Memories are all we really own.
 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. 
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.