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• The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spring, Past, Blossoming

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1859). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the Past Edition : with Elucidations”, p.9

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• If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

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• It takes a moment to make memories and a lifetime to forget them.

  Andy Mineo

  Memories, Forget, Moments

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• People tell me I saved hundreds and hundreds of people. But I have to tell you: it’s not the people you saved that you remember. It’s the ones you couldn’t save. Those are the ones you talk about. Those are the faces and situations that stay with you forever.

  Chris Kyle

  Life, Memories, Military

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• Memories I had locked away have begun to break free, like shards of ice fracturing off an arctic shelf. In sleep, these broken floes drift toward the morning light of remembrance.

  Tan Twan Eng

  Morning, Memories, Sleep

  Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.8, Canongate Books

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• I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Principles, Given

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• Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay about him, and felt, inexplicably, the way one might feel upon recognizing a melody or a voice, that all this had happened to him before and that he had faced it with fear but also with joy and hopefulness and curiosity. Then he descended into his memory, which seemed to him endless, and managed to draw up from that vertigo the lost remembrance that gleamed like a coin in the rain - perhaps because he had never really looked at it except (perhaps) in a dream.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Dream, Morning, Memories

  Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (2004). “Aleph and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Gone, Burden

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, Alexander Chalmers, Alexander Pope (1826). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies Left by the Late George Steevens, ..., and Edmond Malone, ..., with Mr. Malone's Various Readings ; a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators”, p.91

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• You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.

  Luis Bunuel

  Life, Memories, Feelings

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.9, Random House

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• Today is a day of remembrance that is heavy on my heart.

  Vickie Guerrero

  Heart, Wwe, Today

  Twitter post from Nov 13, 2010

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• Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Memories, Humor

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• Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.

  Euripides

  Sweet, Safety, Trouble

  "Andromeda". Play by Euripides, 412 BCE.

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• Lift up your hearts to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we are aware.

  Brother Lawrence

  Prayer, Heart, Meals

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “Mystical Paths to God: Three Journeys”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Remembrance saves a people's soul from whatever or whoever would attempt to dominate it or use it for their interests.

  Pope Francis

  People, Soul, Use

  Pope Francis (2016). “The Allure of Goodness and Love: Pope Francis in the United States Complete Texts”, p.73, Liturgical Press

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• When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past -
  For years fleet away with the wings of the dove -
  The dearest remembrance will still be the last,
  Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.

  Lord Byron

  Kissing, Past, Blood

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.52, Delphi Classics

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• ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

  Jane Austen

  Pain, Pleasure

  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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• The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Stories, Speak, Remembrance Day

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• In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Memories, Long, Able

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.564, Race Point Pub

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• Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Life, Joy, Noble

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.

  Rajneesh

  Pain, Forget, Oblivion

  Osho, Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Yoga Rabiya (Ma.), Ananda Vandana (Ma.), Prem Pankaja (Ma.) (1978). “The Discipline of Transcendence: Discourses on the Forty-two Sutras of Buddha”

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• Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Past, Criminals

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• Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Death, Military

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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• The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry.
  [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]

  Tacitus

  Powerful, Ill, Pleasantries

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• Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Memories, Past

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations”, p.6

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• Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Paradise, Driven

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