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- Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826)
- No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
- Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett
- The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.
- Sir B. Brodie
- So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.
- Author Unknown
- Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.
- Author Unknown
- Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
- Martin Tupper
- What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
- Alfred Mercier
- Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.
- Firmianus Lactantius
- We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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