The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
While Washington hath left His awful memory, A light for after times.
Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.