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    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?

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Far from our eyes th' Enchanting Objects set,
Advantage by the friendly Distance get.

Far from our eyes th' Enchanting Objects set,
Advantage by the friendly Distance get.

by Guillaume Alexis Found in: Memory Quotes,
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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.

by Robertson Davies Found in: Memory Quotes,
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

by Friedrich Nietzsche Found in: Memory Quotes,
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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

by Aeschylus Found in: Memory Quotes,
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd!
How sweet their memory still!
But they have left an aching read more

What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd!
How sweet their memory still!
But they have left an aching void
The world can never fill.

by William Cowper Found in: Memory Quotes,
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I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people read more

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

by Sophia Loren Found in: Memory Quotes,
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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

by George Herbert Found in: Memory Quotes,
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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

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