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He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. - Bible, Job (ch. VII, v. 10) Oblivion is a second death, which great minds dread more than the first. - Marquis Stanislas Jean de Boufflers Oblivion is not to be hired. - Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia (ch. V) For those sacred powers Tread on oblivion: no desert of ours Can be entombed in their celestial breasts. - Sir William Browne (1), Britannia's Pastorals (bk. III, song II, st. 23) It is not in the storm nor in the strife We feel benumb'd, and wish to be no more, But in the after-silence on the shore, When all is lost, except a little life. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Lines on Hearing that Lady Byron was Ill (l. 9) Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past. - Thomas Carlyle, Cromwell's Letters and Speeches--Introduction (ch. I) It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Among our crimes oblivion may be set. - John Dryden Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only certainty is oblivion. - Horace Greeley And o'er the past oblivion stretch her wing. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. XXIV, l. 557), (Pope's translation) Through age both weak in body and oblivious. - Hugh Latimer A sweet forgetfulness of human care. - Alexander Pope Oblivion is the rule, and fame the exception, of humanity. - Antoine de Rivarol, Comte de Rivarol Oblivion is the remedy for injuries. [Lat., Injuriarum remedium est oblivio.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Epistles (94), quoting from an old poet, also found in Syrus And blind oblivion swallowed cities up. - William Shakespeare And steep my senses in forgetfulness. - William Shakespeare What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion. - William Shakespeare Worthy all arms, as welcome as to one That would be rid of such an enemy-- [But that's no welcome. Understand more clear, What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion; But in this extant moment, faith and troth, Strained purely from all hollow bias drawing, Bids thee, with most divine integrity,] From heart of very heart, great Hector, welcome. - William Shakespeare, The History of Troilus and Cressida (Agamemnon at IV, v) They shone forth the more that they were not seen. [Lat., Eo magis praefulgebant quod non videbantur.] - Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), adapted from "Annals", bk. III, 76 But from your mind's chilled sky It needs must drop, and lie with stiffened wings Among your soul's forlornest things; A speck upon your memory, alack! A dead fly in a dusty window-crack. - Francis Thompson, Manus Animam Pinxit (st. 2)
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