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• The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-

  Jane Austen

  Pain, Suffering, Doe

  Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.404, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew,
  In prison pine with bondage and restraint;
  And with remembrance of the greater grief
  To banish the less, I find my chief relief.

  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

  Freedom, Grief, Relief

  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (Illustrated)”, p.36, Delphi Classics

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• You see aright. I am both Queen and Elidhu, here and there, wildfire and hearthfire, forgetting and remembrance. But do no yet speak of this, for men are impatient with such things and do not brook contradiction.

  Alison Croggon

  Queens, Men, Here And There

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• Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor what did not happen but, rather, their potentialization, their becoming possible once again.

  Giorgio Agamben

  Past, Becoming, Possibility

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• All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

  Rudyard Kipling

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.4122, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.

  Upton Sinclair

  Drama, Grief, Writing

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “Dragon's Teeth”, p.483, Open Road Media

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• Be guided, only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the patient Master who shed tears of compassion for our infirmities. We cannot but be right if we put all the rest away, and do everything in remembrance of Him. There is no vengeance and no infliction of suffering in His life, I am sure. There can be no confusion in following Him, and seeking for no other footsteps, I am certain!

  Charles Dickens

  Compassion, Sick, Confusion

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit”, p.825, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Garden, Yesterday, President

  Queen Elizabeth II's Dublin Castle Speech, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 18, 2011.

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• September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.--from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001

  Aberjhani

  Angel, Eagles, Wings

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• There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten; the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf, still clinging vainly to its parent tree as, little by little, time stripped it of its substance, leaving only the delicate remembrance of what it had been.

  Juliet Marillier

  Skeletons, Track, Tree

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “The Dark Mirror”, p.265, Pan Macmillan

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• Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend an aversion to silence, you'll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated.

  Wayne Dyer

  Peace, Space, Silence

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 12, 2010

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• I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep." I woke and chid my honest fingers,— The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sleep, Jewels, Wind

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.141, First Avenue Editions

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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.

  Charles Dickens

  Regret, Hard Times, Long

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7501, Delphi Classics

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• Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives, When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives, Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain, But never will be sung to us again, Is they remembrance. Now the hour of rest Hath come to thee. Sleep, darling: it is best.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Song, Sweet, Pain

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.994, Delphi Classics

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• And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with no beginning or end, and would drown the speaker before he could reach the life raft of the point he was trying to make. It was impossible to remember what one meant, what, after all of the words, was intended.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Tangled, Mind, Trying

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.261, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Dream, War, Gun

  Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

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• Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

  Marty Meehan

  Lying, Years, Black History

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• For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

  William Penn

  Sympathy, Death, Memorial Day

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

  Alexander Pope

  Memories, Reflection, Literature

  Alexander Pope, “An Essay On Man In Four Epistles: Epistle 1”

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• One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

  Antonio Porchia

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, Sadness, Solitude

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• There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.

  Muhammad

  Islamic, Heart, Holy Prophet

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• Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Mind, Grasping

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• Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

  Publilius Syrus

  Memorial Day, Courage, Fear

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 63,

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• To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

  Rene Magritte

  Mean, Mind, Surrealism

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