Time for another Saturday Sayings!

Seven Sayings In Remembrance Since it's Memorial Day weekend, and I just posted about the new Freedom Tower that's being built, I'm making this a two-parter. 1) ���������Praising what is lost ����Makes the remembrance dear. ~William Shakespeare, All's Well That End's Well -- Act V, Scene III~ 2) Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by Singularity--it should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a Remembrance. ~Letter written by John Keats to John Taylor~ 3) "I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax, which is of different sizes in different men; harder, moister, and having more or less of purity in one than another, and in some of an intermediate quality...Let us say that this tablet is a gift of Memory, the mother of the Muses; and that when we wish to remember anything which we have seen, or heard, or thought in our own minds, we hold the wax to the perceptions and thoughts, and in that material receive the impression of them as from the seal of a ring; and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget and do not know." ~Plato, Dialogues, Theaetetus, Sec. 191~ 4) Let us not burden our remembrances ����With a heaviness that's gone. ~William Shakespeare, The Tempest -- Act V, Scene I~ 5) "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate--we cannot consecrate--we cannot hallow--this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored." ~Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address~ 6) "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~George Santayana~ 7) They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow ��������old: ����Age shall not weary them, nor the years ��������condemn. ����At the going down of the sun and in the morning ����We will remember them. ~Laurence Binyon, For the Fallen~ ********They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow ��������old: ����Age shall not weary them, nor the years ��������condemn. ����At the going down of the sun and in the morning ����We will remember them. ~Laurence Binyon, For the Fallen~ To me this one seemed appropriate, both for Memorial Day and for the fallen in all the wars our veterans have fought in and for those who died and became heroes on 9/11. They will never be forgotten: not by God, nor by us who are left to remember.

This is a very simple meme. I hope it will be fun for you who participate. All you need to do is choose a topic and find seven sayings or quotes on it and then choose one of your seven to elaborate on. Quite simple! =0} Above all, HAVE FUN!

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