Parting

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Parting occurs when two or more people must separate for a time.

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  • They say he parted well, and paid his score;
    And so, God be with him!
  • But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations edit

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 579-580.
  • Till then, good-night!
    You wish the time were now? And I.
    You do not blush to wish it so?
    You would have blush'd yourself to death
    To own so much a year ago.
    What! both these snowy hands? ah, then
    I'll have to say, Good-night again.
  • Good night! I have to say good night,
    To such a host of peerless things!
  • Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting,
    The parting hour is come!
    And fast thy soul is fleeting
    To seek its starry home.
  • Fare thee well! and if for ever,
    Still for ever, fare thee well.
  • Let's not unman each other—part at once;
    All farewells should be sudden, when forever,
    Else they make an eternity of moments,
    And clog the last sad sands of life with tears.
  • We two parted
    In silence and tears,
    Half broken-hearted
    To sever for years.
  • Kathleen Mavourneen, the gray dawn is breaking,
    The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill,
    The lark from her light wing the bright dew is shaking—
    Kathleen Mavourneen, what, slumbering still?
    Oh hast thou forgotten how soon we must sever?
    Oh hast thou forgotten this day we must part?
    It may be for years and it may be forever;
    Oh why art thou silent, thou voice of my heart?
    • Ascribed to Mrs. Julia Crawford, Kathleen Mavourneen. First pub. in Metropolitan Magazine. London, between 1830 and 1840.
  • One kind kiss before we part,
    Drop a tear, and bid adieu;
    Though we sever, my fond heart
    Till we meet shall pant for you.
    • Dodsley, Colin's Kisses, The Parting Kiss.
  • In every parting there is an image of death.
  • The king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way.
    • Ezekiel, XXI. 21. See also Xenophon—Memorabilia, II. 1. "Choice of Hercules." Referred to by Carlyle—Sartor Resartus, Book II.
  • We only part to meet again.
  • Excuse me, then! you know my heart;
    But dearest friends, alas! must part.
    • John Gay, The Hare and Many Friends, line 61.
  • Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said
    Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days
    That are no more, and shall no more return.
    Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed;
    I stay a little longer, as one stays
    To cover up the embers that still burn.
  • My Book and Heart
    Shall never part.
    • New England Primer (1814).
  • If we must part forever,
    Give me but one kind word to think upon,
    And please myself with, while my heart's breaking.
  • Shall I bid her goe? what and if I doe?
    Shall I bid her goe and spare not?
    Oh no, no, no, I dare not.
  • Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart,
    And often took leave; but was loth to part.
  • But in vain she did conjure him,
    To depart her presence so,
    Having a thousand tongues t' allure him
    And but one to bid him go.
    When lips invite,
    And eyes delight,
    And cheeks as fresh as rose in June,
    Persuade delay,—
    What boots to say
    Forego me now, come to me soon.
    • Sir Walter Raleigh, Dulcina. See Cayley's Life of Raleigh, Volume I, Chapter III.
  • Say good-bye er howdy-do—
    What's the odds betwixt the two?
    Comin'—goin'—every day—
    Best friends first to go away—
    Grasp of hands you'd ruther hold
    Than their weight in solid gold,
    Slips their grip while greetin' you,—
    Say good-bye er howdy-do?
  • Gone—flitted away,
    Taken the stars from the night and the sun
    From the day!
    Gone, and a cloud in my heart.
  • She went her unremembering way,
    She went and left in me
    The pang of all the partings gone,
    And partings yet to be.

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