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“Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.”

Shows Memories Failing Office Buried Tombs

Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“What thousands and millions of recollections there must be in us! And every now and then one of them becomes known to us; and it shows us what spiritual depths are growing in us, what mines of memory.”

Shows Spiritual Memories Known Millions Growing Mines Depth Now And Then Recollection

Book:Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

Source: Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

“[I]n my country, when they would say a man has no sense, they say, such an one has no memory; and when I complain of the defect of mine, they do not believe me, and reprove me, as though I accused myself for a fool: not discerning the difference betwixt memory and understanding, which is to make matters still worse for me. But they do me wrong; for experience, rather, daily shows us, on the contrary, that a strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)

“We who go a-fishing are a peculiar people. Like other men and women in many respects, we are like one another, and like no others, in other respects. We understand each other's thoughts by an intuition of which we know nothing. We cast our flies on many waters, where memories and fancies and facts rise, and we take them and show them to each other, and small or large, we are content with our catch.”

People Knows Men Facts Shows Water Memories Sea Men And Women Rivers Casts Fishes Intuition Boat Fancy Lakes Fishing Peculiar

Author:William Cowper Prime

“The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they value their own lives. When the last of the veterans had gone, and the sorrows and bitterness which the war created had at last worn away, this memory remained.”

People War Shows Lasts Values Challenges Memories History Gone Sorrow Ordinary Endure Realization Civil War Bitterness Worn Veteran Ordinary People American Civil War

Author:Bruce Catton