"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."
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"Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime."
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"Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness."
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"The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable."
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"Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."
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"That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance."
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"Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance."
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"I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance."
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"Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety."
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"As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief."
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"Grace and remembrance be to you both."
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"Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance."
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"I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personalrelations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words. For persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts."
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"I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy."
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"As a rule, he fights well who has wrongs to redress; but vastly better fights he who, with wrongs as a spur, has also steadily before him a glorious result in prospect--a result in which he can discern balm for wounds, compensation for valor, remembrance and gratitude in the event of death."
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"Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance."
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"Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn, a human being."
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"That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing."
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"I cannot but remember such things were that were most precious to me."
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"Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten."
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