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• Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Goodbye, Thee

  Lord Byron (2013). “Selected Poems of Lord Byron”, p.38, Lulu Press, Inc

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• That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!

  Robert Pollok

  Inspirational, Goodbye, Bitter Words

  Robert Pollok (1855). “The Course of Time: A Poem ...”, p.219

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• Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day.

  Etty Hillesum

  Love, Real, Order

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• If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Good Night, Stars, Men

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• The return makes one love the farewell.

  Alfred de Musset

  Love, Inspirational, Goodbye

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• Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness!

  William Shakespeare

  Greatness, Long, Ripening

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 352

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• Come,
  Let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me
  All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more.
  Let's mock the midnight bell.

  William Shakespeare

  Retirement, Night, Bells

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 3, sc. 11, l. 182

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• When I died last, and, Dear, I die
  As often as from thee I go
  Though it be but an hour ago,
  And lovers' hours be full eternity.

  John Donne

  Love, Retirement, Lasts

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Legacy'

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• No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Childhood, Authority, Made

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• Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

  John Milton

  Paradise Lost Book 9, Adieu, Paradise Lost Book 2

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 108

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• When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

  Denis Diderot

  Birthday, Goodbye, Excellence

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And - when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening - nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Fall, Greatness

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 352

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• Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.

  Boris Pasternak

  Party, Secret, Suffering

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• Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles. "May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Moon, Journey, Eagles

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Friends, Goodbye

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 4, sc. 3, l. 14

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• Retirement: a time to become much more than you have ever been.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Retirement

  "How to Retire Happy, Wild and Free". Book by Ernie J Zelinski, www.today.com. 2004.

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• No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, House, Together

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2005). “Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography”, p.168, Pomegranate

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• While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Inspirational, Funny, Peace

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• It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.

  Lance Armstrong

  Funny, Sports, Farewell Love

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• That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Relationship, Marriage, Distance

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3265, Delphi Classics

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• The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

  Robert Southey

  Friendship, Goodbye, Loss

  Robert Southey (1850). “Southey's Common-place Book”, p.44

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• So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

  John Milton

  Hope, Fear, Evil

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 108

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• Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.

  William Cowper

  Art, Sound, Gone

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1849). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper ...: Including the Copyright Poems, with a Life of the Author”, p.484

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• The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Said

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.177

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• And mind, with my heart in't; and now farewell
  Till half an hour hence.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Mind, Half

  William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson (1883). “Shakespeare's The Tempest: With Introduction, and Notes Explanatory and Critical. For Use in Schools and Classes”

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