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• When I forget that the stars shine in air--
  When I forget that beauty is in stars--
  When I forget that love with beauty is--
  Will I forget thee: till then all things else.

  Philip James Bailey

  Stars, Air, Shining

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.236

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• There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

  Jessamyn West

  Communication, Ignorance, Two

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.

  Honore de Balzac

  Strong, Past, Creative

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• If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.

  Arthur Machen

  Dream, Men, Ties

  Arthur Machen (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)”, p.1199, Delphi Classics

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• I can remember much forgetfulness.

  Hart Crane

  Remember, I Can

  Hilton Landry, Elaine Landry, Robert J. DeMott, Hart Crane (1973). “A concordance to the poems of Hart Crane”, Scarecrow Pr

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• God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o'er, both are alike requited, God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.

  Robert Owen

  God, Doctors, Medical

  Epigram Cf. 256:27

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• To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel!

  John Owen

  Angel, Men, Safety

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, p. 287-88, 1922.

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• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.

  William Wordsworth

  Sleep, Afterlife, Infancy Is

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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• Quit the world, and the world forgets you.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  World, Quitting, Forget You

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.405

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• But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Gathering, Wool, Ass

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.673, Wordsworth Editions

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• The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Names, Pyramids, History

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• Forgotten? No, we never do forget:
  We let the years go: eash then clean with tears,
  Leave them to bleach, out in the open day,
  Or lock them careful by, like dead friends’ clothes,
  Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,—
  But we forget not, never can forget.

  Dinah

  Pain, Clothes, Years

  "A Flower of a Day". Poem by Dinah Maria Mulock, webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu. 1866.

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• Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Politics, Remember

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Lord Stanhope, July 17, 1870.

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• Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
  Lest we forget--lest we forget!

  Rudyard Kipling

  God, Host, Forget

  "Recessional" st. 1 (1897)

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• To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.

  Sylvia Plath

  Dream, Baby, Cadavers

  The Bell Jar ch. 20 (1963)

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• The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Stars, Lying, Spring

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• The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Kings, Humble, Sacrifice

  Recessional, in The Times 17 July 1897

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• O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Insomnia, Nurse

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 5

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• The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Hatred, Devil

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• If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Writing, Hatred

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.8, Schocken

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• It is sure the hardest science to forget!

  Alexander Pope

  Forget, Hardest

  'Eloisa to Abelard' (1717) l. 189.

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• God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.

  Cesare Lombroso

  Forgetful, Knows

  The Man of Genius pt. 1, ch. 2 (1891)

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• Keeping a [journal] need not be a major chore-just a few minutes of notes each day can be valuable. Writing crystallizes insights, fools the defense of forgetfulness, and builds a collection of ideas and reflections that can spur further insights even years later.

  Roger N. Walsh

  Inspirational, Writing, Reflection

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  The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Military, Army, Navy

  Duff Gilfond, Calvin Coolidge (1932). “The Rise of Saint Calvin: Merry Sidelights on the Career of Mr. Coolidge”

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• Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

  George Eliot

  Death, Dying, Literature

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.81, Wordsworth Editions

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