Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Memory

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  1. The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

  2. I wiped away the weeds and foam, And fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar.

  3. A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good.

  4. I no more remember the books I have read than the meals I have eaten, but they have made me.

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