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“Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.”

Memories Grief Objects Affection Delight Absence Impression Intense Poignant Widowed

Author:James Martineau

“A painter's hand has a thirst for thieving, it steals from heaven and makes a gift to the memories of men, it feigns eternity and it delights in this pretence almost as if it had created rules of its own, more durable and more profoundly true.”

Ifs Men Art Hands Heaven Memories Painting Eternity Delight Stealing Painter Thirst Pretence

Author:Dacia Maraini

“It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories.”

Memories Learning Meetings Delight Scholar Leaving Me Departure Prowess

Author:Thiruvalluvar

“But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.”

Night Loses Memories Sea Sadness Return Sad Ambition Flow Delight Hungry Bitter Heels Gloom Withered

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose

“Living in the present moment requires discretion toward memory. Without memory we'd have amnesia. What good would there be in that? Offer discretion and discernment for our past with a broad spectrum of forgiveness. As for our present moment, delight. And dedication to remain fully present to all the possibility.”

Moments Past Memories Possibility Offers Delight Present Moment Broads Dedication Our Past Spectrum Discernment Discretion Live In The Present Amnesia

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.”

Age Memories Youth Adversity Prosperity Delight Old Age Temper

Author:Lactantius