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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.

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

by Chief Seattle Found in: Memory Quotes,
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I do perceive that the old proverb be not alwaies trew, for I do
finde that the absence of read more

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.

by Lady Anne Bacon Found in: Memory Quotes,
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Remembrance wakes with all her busy train,
Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.

Remembrance wakes with all her busy train,
Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.

by Oliver Goldsmith Found in: Memory Quotes,
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

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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!

by Eliza Cook Found in: Memory Quotes,
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When promise and patience are wearing thin,
When endurance is almost driven in,
When our angels stand read more

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.

by William Bliss Carman Found in: Memory Quotes,
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

by Montaigne Found in: Memory Quotes,
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Friends depart, and memory takes them
To her caverns, pure and deep.

Friends depart, and memory takes them
To her caverns, pure and deep.

by Thomas Haynes Bayly Found in: Memory Quotes,
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Out of sighte, out of mynde.

Out of sighte, out of mynde.

by Lady Anne Bacon Found in: Memory Quotes,
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