"What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the……" — Susanna Moodie
"What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds -- this faithful witness against us for good or evil."
—
Susanna Moodie
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
9 Quotes by Susanna Moodie
Susanna Moodie has 9 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
When things come to the worse, they generally mend.
-
Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress…
-
Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
-
Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great…
-
Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds…
-
I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own…
-
The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.
-
Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds…
See all 9 quotes by Susanna Moodie »
More All Quotes
This quote is filed under All Quotes,
one of 128,558 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
— Hannah Arendt
-
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
-
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
-
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
— Pietro Aretino
-
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
-
A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
See all 128,558 All Quotes »