#forgetfulness

At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove. ↗

— James Beattie

#day #forgetfulness #grove #hamlet #heard

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#constitution #extreme #fate #fathers #forgetfulness

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#forgetting #happiness #memory #happy

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#compensation #conscience #debtors #forgetfulness #gift

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget. ↗

— Chaim Herzog

#bring #dead #forget #forgetfulness #forgive