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"It is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed we beginto keep them company. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual Friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins."
"The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead."
"I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies-- and thus become silent."
"It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men."
"Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us."
"feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell."
"My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell."
"And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain. Therefore, Farewell."
"Normally when people resign they will organise their champagne farewell parties... and then they resurface somewhere."
"Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine."
"I only know we loved in vain; I only feel-farewell! farewell!"
"Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave."
