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• Have you not love enough to bear with me, when that rash humor which my mother gave me makes me forgetful.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Anger, Bears

  William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius”, p.500

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• Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here!

  George Santayana

  Hands, Here I Am, Grace

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• No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Art, Self, Order

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.82, Macmillan

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• Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Tales, Tedious

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• I was getting keys for my apartment, and I asked if I could get doubles, because I'm forgetful, and the woman there said, "Yeah, but it costs $5." I was like, "Oh, okay." But then she said, "Actually, you know what, I'm just going to give it to you for free. You were in that movie Mrs. Doubtfire, and that movie really helped me out in a time when I needed it. It got me through something, and it made me laugh when I needed to laugh.

  Mara Wilson

  Keys, Giving, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you’re so forgetful that you’re incapable of remembering that a co-worker isn’t pregnant on three separate occasions in as many months, I worry about your memory and cognition skills.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Family Friends, Co Worker, Workers

  "Just a Little Crush". Live chat, www.slate.com. March 7, 2016.

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• I valued the experience of making the recordings, and I value the performances contained therein, and I value so much of what they can represent. I also think they're a terrific listening experience. Putting them out this way was a way of trying to maintain and nurture the relationship with the audience and also shine a light on the recent past, because we are so apt to be forgetful as human beings that there was such a thing as a recent past. These are some of the reasons for making this record.

  Will Oldham

  Past, Thinking, Light

  "Will Oldham’s Fourth Dimension". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• When warriors feel afraid they lack something, it is only because they are forgetful. They have forgotten how capable they truly are.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Warrior, Forgotten, Feels

  Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon (1995). “The Black Gryphon”, p.84, Penguin

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• The rose does not have a why; it blossums without reason, forgetful of self and oblivious to our vision.

  Angelus Silesius

  Self, Rose, Vision

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• All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river. . . . In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re-visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.

  Virgil

  Life, Years, Rivers

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• Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk warily with thought and care, so long will it give you its aid, but look away for an instant, be heedless or forgetful, and it has you by the throat.

  Kamala Markandaya

  Nature, Animal, Giving

  Kamala Markandaya (1954). “Nectar in a Sieve: A Novel”

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• Yoga makes my day better as I am less likely to fall victim to my otherwise foolish & forgetful mind.

  Jason Mraz

  Yoga, Fall, Mind

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• Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Genius, Poverty, Never Fear

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• Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Lust, Suffering, Path

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• Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.

  George Santayana

  Memories, Self, Bird

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.172, MIT Press

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• The mind unlearned in reverence, says Bonaventure (1221-1274), is in danger of becoming so captivated by the spectacle of beings as to be altogether forgetful of being in itself; and our mechanistic approach to the world is nothing but ontological obliviousness translated into a living tradition.

  David Bentley

  Mind, Becoming, World

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• Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were makers of bulls before his day, even as brave men lived before Agamemnon; but they are not remembered, and if their bulls have survived them they are credited to Sir Boyle by a posterity generously forgiving and forgetful of his famous indictment.

  Boyle Roche

  Father, Men, Brave

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• If an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful, if his deeds are pure, if he acts with consideration, if he restrains himself, and lives according to law,then his glory will increase.

  Max Muller

  Law, Deeds, Glory

  F. Max Muller (2000). “Wisdom of the Buddha: The Unabridged Dhammapada”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd; what burden then?

  John Milton

  Gratitude, Grateful, Mind

  John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.238

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• We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.

  Nhat Hanh

  Meditation, Trying, Our Society

  Nhất Hạnh (Thích.), Thich Nhat Hanh (1993). “Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change”

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• These are very unskillful comparisons to represent so precious a thing, but I am not clever enough to think out any more: the real truth is that joy makes the soul so forgetful of itself, and of everything, that it is conscious of nothing, and able to speak of nothing, save of that which proceeds from its joy... Let us join with this soul, my daughters all. Why should we want to be more sensible than she? What can give us greater pleasure than to do as she does? And may all the creatures join with us for ever and ever. Amen, amen, amen.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Daughter, Clever

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• Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.

  Homer

  Love, Power, Grace

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.333

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• What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned.

  Nick Laird

  Selfish, Love Is, Opposites

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• All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Simple, People

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “On Liberty and Utilitarianism”, p.234, Bantam Classics

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• I Cannot Exist Without You. I Am Forgetful Of Everything But Seeing You Again.

  John Keats

  Love, Crush, Without You

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

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