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    The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

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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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A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

by Elbert Hubbard Found in: Memory Quotes,
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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?

by La Rochefoucauld Found in: Memory Quotes,
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Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

by Michel De Montaigne 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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Always remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever you have time read more

Always remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever you have time and never forget everything and every person that has the least place within your heart.

by Jeremy Irons Found in: Memory Quotes,
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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.]

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Don't you remember, sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?
Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown;
Who wept with read more

Don't you remember, sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?
Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown;
Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile,
And trembl'd with fear at your frown!

by Thomas Dunn English Found in: Memory Quotes,
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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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