The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.

Walter Savage Landor
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The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow. The writer was speaking about how people should cherish the memories of their lives. If you think about the time you had when you were young, it is likely that there are lots of great things that have happened to you that are too long forgotten. You might have been a happy kid or were always smiling.

Maybe you made friends easily or were always helping others. Those are all things that can be remembered fondly even if they are not repeated in your life again.

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