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And yet, protest it if we will, Some corner of the mind retains The medieval man, who still Keeps watch upon those starry skeins And drives us out of doors at night To gaze at anagrams of light.
~ Adrienne Rich
Waking from any fever dream, one retains, above all, impressions seared into memory.
~ Joshua Oppenheimer
One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them.
~ Dion Fortune
We continue to emphasize that our position is that the Ten Commandments were done away only when considered as a covenant document. We are not saying that the principles expressed in the demands of the individual commandments have ceased. Our Lord Jesus Christ retains the principles that underlie commandments regardless of where those commandments are found in the Old Testament Scriptures.
~ John G. Reisinger
The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.
~ Julius Charles Hare
He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity.
~ Mary Shelley
The Delmore Brothers is hit music - very, very popular - and it still retains that rural flavor and simplicity. I always think of it as family music, really, because families sang it.
~ Ry Cooder
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
~ Francis Quarles
Divinity retains the appearance of insight, when in reality it celebrates ignorance. Its tenets are so much clay, and when the clay sets, it becomes dogma.
~ Anthony Ryan, Tower Lord
and growing need for fixed income securities, and for low inflation to ensure that the interest they pay retains its purchasing power. As more and more people leave the workforce, recurrent public sector deficits ensure that the bond market will never be short of new bonds to sell.
~ Niall Ferguson
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
~ Francis Quarles
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
~ Berthold Auerbach
For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
~ John Lothrop Motley
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
~ Charlotte Bronte
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
~ Maurice Baring