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“Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.”

Men Pain Lasts Memories Mankind Fortune Every Man Good Fortune Last Day Without Pain

Book:The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version

Source: The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version

“We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.”

Mind May Action Fall Memories Known Principles Mankind Taught Errors Sentences Remembered Folly Contracts Impressed Recollection Benefactors Rules Of Life

Book:The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works

Source: The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works

“Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe’”

Men World Universe Memories Mankind Mirrors Substance Genes Perpetual

Book:The Invention of Solitude

Source: The Invention of Solitude

“We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.”

Men Evil Memories Mankind Remains Distance Treasure Mortals Evil Man

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“[Referring to the birds:] Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were stored in those little brains, behind the stabbing beaks, the piercing eyes, now giving them this instinct to destroy mankind with all the deft precision of machines.”

Source: THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI, THE STORY OF AVIATION, THE SWIMMING POOL, KISS ME AGAIn, STRANGER, RIVETS, ADVENTURES IN TWO WORLDS, THE SILENT WORLD, SHORT STORIES OF DE MAUPASSANT

“Time after time mankind is driven against the rocks of the horrid reality of a fallen creation. And time after time mankind must learn the hard lessons of history-the lessons that for some dangerous and awful reason we can't seem to keep in our collective memory.”

Hard Reason Reality Seems Memories Mankind Rocks Dangerous Creation Lessons Driven Awful Fallen Collectives Hard Lessons Collective Memory

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“...the dark ancestral cave, the womb from which mankind emerged into the light, forever pulls one back - but...you can't go home again...you can't go...back home to the escapes of Time and Memory. You Can't Go Home Again”

Home Light Memories Dark Forever Mankind Caves Womb Back Home

Author:Thomas Wolfe

“No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.”

Ifs Men Would Be Past Suffering Imagination Memories Doubt Mankind Sorrow No Doubt Equanimity

Book:The Sorrows of Young Werther

Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther