Unremembered Quotes
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That best portion of a good man's life, His little,
nameless, unremembered, acts Of kindness and of
love.
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Thackeray is everybody's past — is everybody's youth. Forgotten friends flit about the passages of dreamy colleges and unremembered clubs; we hear fragments of unfinished conversations, we see faces without names for an instant, fixed forever in some trivial grimace: we smell the strong smell of social cliques now quite incongruous to us; and there stir in all the little rooms at once the hundred ghosts of oneself.
william makepeace thackeray— G. K. Chesterton, The Victorian Age in Literature (1913) [University of Notre Dame Press, 1963], Ch. II: The Great Victorian Novelists (p. 64).
Often his name was, in a generation or two, forgotten. It was from this brotherhood that America has drawn its statesmen and its judges. A free and self-governing Republic stands as a monument for the little-known and unremembered as well as for the famous men of our profession.
robert h. jackson— "Tribute to Country Lawyers: A Review", 30 A.B.A Journal 139 (1944).
On that best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
william wordsworth— William Wordsworth, Lines Composed Above Tintern Abbey
