Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start
When Memory plays an old tune on the heart!

Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start
When Memory plays an old tune on the heart!

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

of thought.

of thought.

Yet how much less it were to gain,
Though thou hast left me free,
The loveliest things read more

Yet how much less it were to gain,
Though thou hast left me free,
The loveliest things that still remain,
Than thus remember thee.

But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not read more

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

By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.

By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We read more

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.