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God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows. (Quote by - Friedrich Klopstock)

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away; Agayne I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tyde and made my paynes his prey. (Quote by - Edmund Spenser)

The world forgetting, by the world forgot. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes)

The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)

Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot. (Quote by - Robert H. Newell)

The tumult and the shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart; Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, A humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet Lest we forget,--lest we forget. (Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)

We may with advantage forget what we know. (Quote by - Syrus (Publilius Syrus)

God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung battle-line, Beneath whose awful Hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine-- Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget--lest we forget! (Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)

The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past--and man forgot. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. (Quote by - Bible)

Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle. (Quote by - William Graham Sumner)

Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him. (Quote by - Cervantes)

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. (Quote by - Bible)

To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel! (Quote by - John Owen)

Our God and soldier we alike adore, When at the brink of ruin, not before; After deliverance both alike requited, Our God forgotten, and our soldiers slighted. (Quote by - Francis Quarles)

All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. (Quote by - Elias Canetti)

A man must get a thing before he can forget it. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)

It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know. (Quote by - Syrus)

We bury love, Forgetfulness grows over it like grass; That is a thing to weep for, not the dead. (Quote by - Alexander Smith)

And when he is out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind. (Quote by - Thomas a Kempis)

Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go; wash them clean with tears, Leave them to bleach out in the open day, Or lock them careful by, like dead friends' clothes, Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,-- But we forget not, never can forget. (Quote by - Dinah Maria Mulock)

God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o'er, both are alike requited, God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted. (Quote by - John Owen)

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