“His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.”
Greatness
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882Related quotes

“Throughout his life the memory of that happy day stayed locked secretly in (his) heart.”
Source: Martin the Warrior

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1849/feb/01/address-in-answer-to-the-speech in the House of Commons (1 February 1849).
1840s
“In a full heart there is room for everything. In an empty heart there is room for nothing.”
En una alma llena cabe todo y en una alma vacía no cabe nada.
Voces (1943)

“To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.”
Memoirs of Lee, "Eulogy on Washington", Dec. 26, 1799, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). First presented in a slightly modified form as: "To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens", Resolutions presented to the United States' House of Representatives, on the Death of Washington, December, 1799. The eulogy was delivered a week later. Marshall, in his Life of Washington, volume v. page 767, says in a note that these resolutions were prepared by Colonel Henry Lee, who was then not in his place to read them. General Robert E. Lee, in the Life of his father (1869), prefixed to the Report of his father's Memoirs of the War of the Revolution, gives (p. 5) the expression "fellow-citizens"; but on p. 52 he says: "But there is a line, a single line, in the Works of Lee which would hand him over to immortality, though he had never written another: 'First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen' will last while language lasts".

Variant: The worse part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
Source: The Giver
My Grandmother's Love Letters (l. 1-4). In The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, by Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair (1988)