Quote by Matthew Arnold
But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill,

But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will. – Matthew Arnold

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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. – Matthew Arnold

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The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. – Matthew Arnold

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Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly stirred;
And weep, and feel the fullness of the past,
The years that are not more. – Matthew Arnold

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Life is a rough biography. Memories smooth out the edges. – Terri Guillemets

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Memory is the scribe of the soul. – Aristotle

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Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. – Pierce Harris, Atlanta Journal

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory. – Chinese Proverb

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I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, Im in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim. – Juno Temple

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