William Hazlitt Forget Quotations

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts, do well to absent themselves for a while from the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!

Those who have the largest hearts, have the soundest understandings; and he is the truest philosopher who can forget himself.

A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.

When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.