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For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain. (Quote by - Lyster)

What we learn with pleasure we never forget. (Quote by - Alfred Mercier)

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. (Quote by - Salvador Dali)

A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)

Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When Memory plays an old tune on the heart! (Quote by - Eliza Cook)

Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night, And God within far Heaven refuse to light The consolation of the dawn for me,-- Between the shadowy burns of Heaven and Hell, It is enough love leaves my soul to dwell With memory. (Quote by - Madison Julius Cawein)

The selective memory isn't selective enough. (Quote by - Blake Morrison)

By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)

The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory. (Quote by - Don Campbell)

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. (Quote by - James Branch Cabell)

It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. (Quote by - Bible)

The true art of memory is the art of attention. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise! (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

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. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)

To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)

Out of sighte, out of mynde. (Quote by - Lady Anne Bacon)

Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age. (Quote by - Lactantius Firmianus)

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. (Quote by - William Bliss Carman)

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints. (Quote by - Chief Seattle)

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin. (Quote by - George Herbert)

Oh, I have roamed o'er many lands, And many friends I've met; Not one fair scene or kindly smile Can this fond heart forget. (Quote by - Thomas Haynes Bayly)

The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee; But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, And all that thou hast done for me! (Quote by - Robert Burns)

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought. (Quote by - Basile)

The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. (Quote by - Persian Proverb)

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