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Memory Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The true art of memory is the art of attention.
- Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.
- He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory,…
- We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures
- Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is…
- Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what…
- To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.
- The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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