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- Purpose is but the slave to memory, of violent birth, but poor validity.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act III, sc. 1
- You can fall ill with just a memory.
- Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel
- Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow... And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart? - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act V, sc. 3
- Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act I, sc. 2
- When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet LV
- I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act III, sc. 2
- I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.
- Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859)
- He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- An old friend is like a tender memory or a comfortable shoe. It takes years of caring to get to that point.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), The Secret Heart of Charlotte Lucas, 2014
- There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
- James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958)
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