“Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets.”
Mason Cooley (1927–2002) American academic
City Aphorisms, Third Selection (1986)
“I sit beside my lonely fire
And pray for wisdom yet:
For calmness to remember
Or courage to forget.”
Remember or Forget, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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And pray for wisdom yet:
For calmness to remember
Or courage to forget." by Charles Hamilton Aide?
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