Remembrance Quotes
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There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart.
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You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem Innisfree.
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Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.
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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.
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Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit.
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All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.
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Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone.
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All knowledge is but remembrance.
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By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have said at the beginning of the second chapter), and remembrance of the same; the other is called science or knowledge of the truth of propositions, and how things are called, and is derived from understanding.
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There's rosemary and rue. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you.
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Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.
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There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.
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Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
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Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee?
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Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.
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Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear
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Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.
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I cannot but remember such things were that were most precious to me.
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Grace and remembrance be to you both.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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No wonder that my remembrance fails me, for I shall complete my 70 years next Sunday (the 22); - and during these 70 years I have had a happy life; which still remains happy because of hope and content.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.
