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• I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me.

  Miriam Makeba

  Funny, Country, Has Beens

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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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• Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars
  That make ambition virtue! O, farewell!
  Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,
  The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife,
  The royal banner, and all quality,
  Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!

  William Shakespeare

  War, Ambition, Pride

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 346

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• Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing.

  Richard P. Bland

  Funny, Strong, Mean

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• One day I may be meeting you and hearing how you've changed your life by saying, "Farewell to Fat".

  Richard Simmons

  Funny, One Day, May

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

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• Ozzy wanted to get us back together. It's been 20 years. We did a couple of songs during his farewell in 1992 and that got the ball rolling.

  Geezer Butler

  Funny, Song, Couple

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• On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.

  Nellie Bly

  Funny, Sight, Long

  Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.44, Nellie Bly

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• The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Atlanta, Imagination, Fascination

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

  Alan Alda

  Goodbye, Heart, Doors

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• Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky.

  Lord Byron

  Prayer, Air, Sky

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.381, Delphi Classics

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• It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known.

  Charles Tennyson Turner

  Night, Perfect, Occasional

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• Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!
  Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars
  That make ambition virtue.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Ambition, Mind

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 346

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• Bidding the wizard farewell, he turned to his daughter, who held up her finger and said, “Daddy, look — one of the gnomes actually bit me!” “How wonderful! Gnome saliva is enormously beneficial!” said Mr. Lovegood, seizing Luna’s outstretched finger and examining the bleeding puncture marks. “Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today — perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaim in Mermish — do not repress it! You may have been gifted by the Gernumblies!” Ron, passing them in the opposite direction, let out a loud snort.

  J. K. Rowling

  Daughter, Opposites, Daddy

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• Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
  Some trails are happy ones,
  Others are blue.
  It's the way you ride the trail that counts,
  Here's a happy one for you.

  Dale Evans

  Goodbye, Blue, Way

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• So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.

  William Shenstone

  Goodbye, Return, Good Bye

  William Shenstone (1868). “The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”, p.150

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• Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Sadness, Leaving, World

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1982). “Glory of the Lord VOL 1: Seeing The Form”, p.18, A&C Black

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• Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ.

  Donald Cargill

  Funny, Hands, Christ

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• A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Funny, Jobs, Years

  The Book Reporter interview, www.bookreporter.com. April 21, 2000.

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• Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

  Donald Cargill

  Love, Believe, Reading

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• Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

  Tryon Edwards

  I Miss You, Missing You, Goodbye

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• I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

  Thomas Francis Meagher

  Dream, Country, Passion

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• When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Goodbye, Justice

  Baltimore Evening Sun, June 12, 1922.

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• I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Goodbye, People, Want

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• I've worked for 55 years. I'm going to take a little time off, to tell you the truth. It's just that now in the last couple of weeks, Gelman is pouring it on. 'Farewell to Regis!' It's getting embarrassing.

  Regis Philbin

  Couple, Years, Pouring

  "Jerry Seinfeld interviews Regis Philbin on his television career". Interview with Jerry Seinfeld, www.newsweek.com. November 13, 2011.

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• Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Twilight, Sadness

  'Crossing the Bar' (1889)

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