8 quotes
Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
Francesca Carrara (1834)
Oh! what is memory but a gift
Within a ruin'd temple left,
Recalling what its beauties were,
And then presenting what they are.
The Troubadour (1825)
The Future is more present than the Past :
For one look back, a thousand on we cast ;
And hope doth ever memory outlast.
Ah, tell me not that memory
Sheds gladness o'er the past ;
What is recalled by faded flowers,
Save that they did not last?
Were it not better to forget,
Than but remember and regret?
Ethel Churchill (1837)
IT is in this we differ; I would seek
To blend my very being into thine—
I'm even jealous of thy memory:
I wish our childhood had been pass'd together.
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
Oh, nothing has the memory of love!
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
If, even at three years old, we turn to the pleasures of memory, the less that is asserted about the felicity of childhood, the less there will be to dispute.
Sound peculiarly appeals to memory.
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)