Remembrance Quotes
404 quotes by 318 authors
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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
— Philip James Bailey
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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
— Omar N. Bradley
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
— Bertolt Brecht
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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
— Albert Camus
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By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles…
— Giacomo Casanova
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These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought…
— Michael N. Castle
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
— William J. Clinton
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Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
— William Gilmore Simms
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And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently…
— Thomas Hood
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
— Andre Gide
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Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to…
— Will Durant
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As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions…
— Simon Newcomb
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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast…
— Ernest Hemingway
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The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have…
— Thomas Hobbes
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A few years make such havoc in human generations that we soon see ourselves deprived of those with whom we entered the world, and whom…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
— John Dryden
Who Wrote These Remembrance Quotes
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