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• I have had my fill of words and tearful farewells.

  Gannicus

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• To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word - Farewell

  R. M. Ballantyne

  Goodbye, Hands, Long

  R. M. Ballantyne (2016). “The Coral Island: Illustrated”, p.239, Jester House Publishing

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• When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.

  Isaac Watts

  Fear, Eye, Sky

  Isaac Watts (1867). “The Penny Watts's Hymns ... Selected and Abridged from Dr. Watts's Hymns”, p.94

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• Here - at this final hour, Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes - extinguished now, and gone from us forever.... Many will ask what Harlem finds to honor in this stormy, controversial and bold young captain - and we will smile. ...We will answer and say unto them, ‘Did you ever talk to Brother Malcolm? Did you ever really listen to him? ...For if you did you would know him. And if you knew him you would know why we must honor him.'

  Ossie Davis

  Brother, Forever, Honor

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• I was in Nauvoo on the 26th of May, 1846, for the last time, and left the city of the Saints feeling that most likely I was taking a final farewell of Nauvoo for this life. I looked upon the temple and city as they receded from view and asked the Lord to remember the sacrifices of His Saints.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Sacrifice, Views, Cities

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• Build traditions in your families that will bring you together, for they can demonstrate your devotion, love, and support for one another. These events would include blessings of children, baptisms, other priesthood ordinances, graduations, missionary farewells, homecomings, and, of course, marriages. Sharing these occasions as a family will help us build a foundation established upon a rock.

  L. Tom Perry

  Love, Children, Blessing

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• Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?

  Matsuo Basho

  Summer, Tears, Fans

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• Speaking as he unintentionally launched his farewell tour by announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: Honestly, I had never, ever in my wildest dreams believed I would ever do this. All I wanted to do was to play it out and when it was time to go, hang it up, take off and sail into the sunset somewhere.

  LaVell Edwards

  Dream, Retirement, Sunset

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• Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.

  Erica Jong

  Goodbye, Over You, Driving

  Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• Farewell we call to hearth and hall! Though wind may blow and rain may fall. We must away ere the break of day. Far over wood and mountain tall.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Rain, Fall, Blow

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've been writing verses
  For 60 years...phew!
  And d'yer know why I did it?
  T'was especially for you

  John Walter Bratton

  Writing, Wedding Anniversary, Years

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• Leaving Verses Poems Quotes
  To say goodbye
  Isn't a pain
  Unless you're never going...!
  (Tee hee)

  John Walter Bratton

  Goodbye, Pain, Leaving

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• ... I bid farewell to my readers in the hope that they have formed their own opinion as to the meaning of the word "combination".

  Raymond Keene

  Chess, Opinion, Combination

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• I more or less intended it (the farewell tour) to be for the United Kingdom and not so much over here, but everywhere I've worked, they've been aware this is my final tour ? my final year ? which in all likelihood is gonna be the case.

  Don Williams

  Years, Finals, Kingdoms

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• The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang even at the moment of parting; yea, even the eternal farewell is robbed of half of its bitterness when uttered in accents that breathe love to the last sigh.

  Joseph Addison

  Love, Half, Lasts

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• If hemp could supply the energy needs of the United States, its value would be inestimable. Now that the drug czar is in final retreat, America has an opportunity to, once and for all, say farewell to the Exxon Valdez, Saddam Hussein and a prohibitively expensive brinkmanship in the desert sands of Saudi Arabia.

  Hugh Downs

  Opportunity, America, Drug

  ABC News, November 1990.

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• I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!

  Henrik Ibsen

  Possibility, Scales

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.646, Delphi Classics

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• Farewell to ye all! In the land of the stranger I rise or I fall.

  Davy Crockett

  Fall, Land, Stranger

  Davy Crockett (1834). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...”

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• Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Inspirational, Goodbye, Hurt

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  I Miss You, Missing You, Goodbye

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.611, Delphi Classics

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• Where is the good in goodbye?

  Meredith Willson

  Goodbye

  Meredith Willson, Franklin Lacey (1958). “Libretto for Meredith Wilson's the music man: book, music and lyrics”

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• Death's in the good-bye.

  Anne Sexton

  Death, Goodbye, Reality

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• Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Goodbye, Mean, Brooklyn

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• Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon.

  Richard O'Brien

  Goodbye, Adore, Interest

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.

  William Shakespeare

  Goodbye, Heart, Good Bye

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.190

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