"Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything."
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"I told you once before,” I said, the words husky from remembrance. “Everyone holds their sins close to their skin.” Fangs gleamed for an instant before Vlad bit into his wrist, pooling up two deep crimson holes. “Then come,” he said, holding it out. “And taste mine."
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"No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery."
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"There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living."
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"Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour."
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"The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hemp--with remembrance of Virginia, with remembrance of dear ancestral Britain."
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"Remembrances last longer than present realities."
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"The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance."
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"and love was lightning and remembrance"
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"Wrapped around my son with only the knowledge of the words of the world & a quiet remembrance of watching before this all began."
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"To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman or casual straggler, and in another age to be lost, even to remembrance. Such is the amount of boasted immortality."
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"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought."
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"Remembrance is a necessary expression of love, internally."
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"Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance."
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"Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die."
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"I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old."
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"Forgetfulness is necessary to remembrance. Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away,and which new images are striving to obliterate. If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur, and every recurrence would reinstate them in their former place."
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"Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive. Remembered ones dress up for the occasion and sit still. Memory is a photo-studio de luxe on an infinite Fifth Power Avenue."
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"Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory."
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"Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like an impulse."
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