Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things

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Memory: a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it...

Memory: a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it...

(History is) not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul

(History is) not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good; and thanks to this artifice...

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good; and thanks to this artifice...

Most of our oldest memories are the product of repeated rehearsal and reconstruction.

Most of our oldest memories are the product of repeated rehearsal and reconstruction.

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

You never know when you're making a memory.

You never know when you're making a memory.

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one...

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one...

I remember those happy days and often wish I could speak into the ears of...

I remember those happy days and often wish I could speak into the ears of...

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

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

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working...

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working...

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a...

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a...

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide...

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide...

Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance

Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time

It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory....

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory....