Remembrance and reflection how allied!

What thin partitions sense from thought divide!

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 225.

Praising what is lost

Makes the remembrance dear.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): All's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3.

Of joys departed,

Not to return, how painful the remembrance!

Robert Blair (1699-1747): The Grave. Part i. Line 109.

The sweet remembrance of the just

Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust.

Tate And Brady: Psalm cxii. 6.

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

I summon up remembrance of things past,

I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,

And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Sonnet xxx.

The setting sun, and music at the close,

As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,

Writ in remembrance more than things long past.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.