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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

of thought.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

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

The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark.

The painful memories of the past will shape our future; the moments we cherish last forever in a beautiful array of remembrance.