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sharbor59
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 Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 10:00 pm |
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Does anyone know where this saying came from?
"Hail memory and oblivion, to each we owe a debt. For the joys that we remember, and the sorrows we forget".
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Phaedrus
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Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 6:35 am |
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Memory and oblivion, all hail! Memory for goodness, oblivion for evil~Greek saying
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Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 9:00 am |
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"Darknesse and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory, a great part even of our living beings: we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest stroaks of afflicton leave but short smart upon us." Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia [from that famous chapter 5 I believe]
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sharbor59
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Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:05 pm |
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Thanks for the info, it's curious how this stuck in my mind - someone quoted this to me some 30 years ago -seems it was something my memory decided was worth holding on to, but I'd always wondered where it originated.
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