Quote by Samuel Johnson
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. - Samue

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped. – Samuel Johnson

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The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. – Samuel Johnson

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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. – Michel de Montaigne

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The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind. – Thalassa Cruso, To Everything There is a Season, 1973

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Memory

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought. – Basile

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Memory

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. – Edward de Bono

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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. – Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam

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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. – Herbert Spencer

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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. – Ray Bradbury

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Meditation has to become your heartbeat; even when you are asleep the meditation continues like an undercurrent – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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