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• That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap opera growing out of the ground. I'd forgotten that tremolo of expectation produced by a tiny forest of sprouts.

  Paul Fleischman

  Home, Garden, Circles

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• The forests are the flag's of Nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are forgotten. It may be that sometime an immortal pine will be the flag of a united and peaceful world.

  Enos Mills

  Garden, Tree, Peaceful

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• Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten, Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold, Let it be forgotten forever and ever, Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.

  Sara Teasdale

  Time, Flower, Fire

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.61, Рипол Классик

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• Just because someone is single doesn't mean they're lonely. Some people are in relationships and they've forgotten what happiness is.

  Drake

  Cute, Lonely, Mean

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• We have come too far, - struggled too long, - sacrificed too much and have too much left to do, - to allow that which we have achieved for the good of all to be swept away without a fight. And we have not forgotten how to fight.

  Lane Kirkland

  Struggle, Fighting, Long

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• People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted.

  Mother Teresa

  People, Wish, Saint

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• The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Pyramids, Poverty

  Radio address, 7 Apr. 1932 See Sumner 3

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• We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Night, Heaven, Camping

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.61

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• I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree, at first recognized as a frontier; Useful, untrustworthy, as a conveyor of commerce; Then only a problem confronting the builder of bridges. The problem once solved, the brown god is almost forgotten By the dwellers in cities-ever, however, implacable. Keeping his seasons, and rages, destroyer, reminder Of what men choose to forget. Unhonored, unpropitiated By worshippers of the machine, but waiting, watching and waiting.

  T. S. Eliot

  Strong, Rain, Thinking

  T. S. Eliot, “Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages”

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• I was born into no true class and it was my decision early in life to insinuate myself into the middle class like a spy so that I would have an advantageous position of attack, but I seem now and then to have forgotten my mission, and to have taken my disguises too seriously.

  John Cheever

  Taken, Class, Decision

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• The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace whose joyous expression can not be restrained. In the midst of this, however, He, from Whom all blessings flow, must not be forgotten. A call for a national thanksgiving is being prepared, and will be duly promulgated.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Army, Blessing

  Abraham Lincoln (1944). “Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.331, Рипол Классик

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• Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself.

  Henry Beston

  Nature, Struggle, Forgotten Things

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.28, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Dream, Women, Motherhood

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• I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Fun, Men

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.6618, Delphi Classics

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• Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.

  Jackson Browne

  Crazy, Politics

  Song: These Days, Album: For Everyman, 1973

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• America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path - the path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago ... How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom - the clothing of the grave - that some people believe she is already fitted for.

  Bernard Baruch

  Believe, Maturity, Years

  Bernard Baruch's Address on accepting The Churchman Award, New York, May 23, 1944.

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• But
  if each day,
  each hour,
  you feel that you are destined for me
  with implacable sweetness,
  if each day a flower
  climbs up to your lips to seek me,
  ah my love, ah my own,
  in me all that fire is repeated,
  in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
  my love feeds on your love, beloved,
  and as long as you live it will be in your arms
  without leaving mine.

  Pablo Neruda

  Famous Love, Flower, Love Is

  Pablo Neruda (2008). “Love Poems”, p.41, New Directions Publishing

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• Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Dresses, Designer

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• The past cannot be changed or forgotten, edited or erased. It can only be accepted.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Meaningful, Past, Accepted

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• I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

  Thornton Wilder

  Life, Country, Struggle

  1942 The Skin of Our Teeth, act 3.

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• Men do not like to admit to even momentary imperfection. My husband forgot the code to turn off the alarm. When the police came, he wouldn't admit he'd forgotten the code... he turned himself in.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Husband, Humor

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• It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Freedom, Power, Government

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• He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, May, Causes

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.293

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• The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Memories, Lessons, Youth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• She taught me what's important, and what isn't. And I've never forgotten. And that's what mothers do, I say.

  Steven Herrick

  Mother, Important, Taught

  Steven Herrick (2004). “A Place Like this”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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