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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  I Miss You, Romantic, Missing You

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• That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.

  Ovid

  People, May, Please

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.

  James M. Barrie

  Heart, Absence, Grows

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• To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel!

  John Owen

  Angel, Men, Safety

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, p. 287-88, 1922.

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• Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Growing Up, Believe, Book

  The American Scholar sec. 2 (1837)

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• Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.

  Dave Eggers

  Years, Remember, Forget

  Dave Eggers (2007). “How the Water Feels to the Fishes”

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• Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . .

  George Burns

  Funny, Humorous, Mean

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• If you're feeling alone, and your weariness has grown, look up above, and thank God for His love. There's nothing you can do, to change His love for you; hold on friend, it's not the end. Something beautiful will come, the clouds will part for the sun, the skies will break for the Son, and the Father will say 'Well done.' But until then, until then, you're not alone. He can make bread from stone. Hold on to Him, and He'll hold on to you. Take one day at a time, pray for faith and be kind, and when forgetful becomes your mind, remember what He said, 'You are mine.'

  Nick Vujicic

  Beautiful, Father, Son

  FaceBook post by Nick Vujicic from Jun 20, 2013

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• The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of God's agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent, and uncertain. . . . But there can be no doubt as to what elements in the record have evoked a response from all that is best in human nature. The Mother, the Child, and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self-forgetful, with his message of peace, love, and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Life, Mother, Peace

  1938 Adventures of Ideas.

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• I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.

  John Keats

  Sexy, Sensual, Moments

  John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.390, Harvard University Press

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• We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which most complacently we identify the ego.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, Ego, Body

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.37, Advaita Ashrama

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• The human being is not a fallen being in need of redemption but rather a forgetful being who must be reminded of God and his own nature.

  Joseph E. B. Lumbard

  Needs, Redemption, Fallen

  Joseph E. B. Lumbard (2009). “Submission, Faith and Beauty: The Religion of Islam”, Fons Vitae

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• There are two classes of Christians: the proud who imagine they are humble and the humble who are afraid they are proud. There should be another class: the self-forgetful who leave the whole thing in the hands of Christ and refuse to waste any time trying to make themselves good. They will reach the goal far ahead of the rest.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Humble, Humility

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• What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Art, Self, Useless

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• Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Prayer, Giving, Feelings

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.756, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Spook smiled. "Elend is a forgetful scholar - twice as bad as Sazed ever was. He gets lost in his books and forgets about meeting he himself called. He only dresses with any sense of fashion because a Terriswoman bought him a new wardrobe. War has change him some, but on the inside, I think he's still just a dreamer caught in a world with too much violence.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Fashion, War, Book

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.478, Macmillan

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• Hermes's shoulders sagged. "They'll try, Percy. Oh, we'll all try to keep our promise. And maybe for a while things will get better. But we gods have never been good at keeping oaths. You were born because of a broken promise, eh? Eventually we'll become forgetful. We always do." "You can change." Hermes laughed. "After three thousand years, you think the gods can change their nature?" "Yeah," I said. "I do.

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Years, Broken

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.256, Penguin UK

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• Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow

  T. S. Eliot

  Winter, Snow, Covering

  The Waste Land l. 5 (1922)

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• I'm insane, not forgetful.

  Rachel Caine

  Insane

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Last Breath: The Morganville Vampires”, p.269, Penguin

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• Daily fervent prayers seeking forgiveness and special help and direction are essential to our lives and the nourishment of our testimonies. When we become hurried, repetitive, casual, or forgetful in our prayers, we tend to lose the closeness of the Spirit, which is so essential in the continual direction we need to successfully manage the challenges of our everyday lives. Family prayer every morning and night adds additional blessings and power to our individual prayers and to our testimonies.

  Donald L. Staheli

  Morning, Prayer, Night

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• And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

  Heraclitus

  Ignorance, Men, Ignorant

  Heraclitus of Ephesus (2017). “Heraclitus on the two antithetical forces in life: Interdependent and mutually convertible aspects of One Cause”, p.5, Philaletheians UK

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• Jem was safe from her, and he would ride away with a song on his lips and a laugh at her expense, forgetful of her, and of his brother, and of God; while she dragged through the years, sullen and bitter, the stain of silence marking her, coming in the end to ridicule as a soured spinster who had been kissed once in her life and could not forget it.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Song, Brother, Years

  Daphne du Maurier (1936). “JAMAICA INN”

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• It had not seemed to matter that Rose was only eight years old. "More than eight," said Rose. "Nearly nine." "Darling Rose, even almost nearly nine-year-old's don't fall in love," said forgetful Caddy. Caddy tried very hard to comfort Rose when Tom had left. It was not an easy job. It was like trying to comfort a small, unhappy tiger. "Who said anything about falling in love?" growled Rose crossly. "Falling! Falling is by accident! I didn't fall in anything!" "Oh. Right. Sorry, Posy Rose." "And I am definitely not in love!

  Hilary McKay

  Falling In Love, Jobs, Sorry

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• I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving... I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion - I have shudder'd at it - I shudder no more - I could be martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you. My creed is Love and you are its only tenet - You have ravish'd me away by a Power I cannot resist.

  John Keats

  Love, Crush, Men

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• Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.

  Horace

  House, Tombs

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