Parting Words Quotes

• Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.

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  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wise   Home   Learning  

  1906

• When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable.

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  Rabindranath Tagore

  Parting Words   Parting  

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.48, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be solaced and cheered by the exulting cry of triumph over some abuse in Church or State, some vice or folly in society, some false opinion or cruelty or guilt which you have overcome! And I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

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  Horace Mann

  Heart   Errors   Humanity  

  Joy Elmer Morgan, Horace Mann, Eleanor Craven Fishburn (1938). “Horace Mann at Antioch”

  2046

• I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

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  Horace

  Heart   Humanity   Victory  

  3222

• This morning when I left Mom's parting words were, "Come straight home after school." Wow! Like I'm going to get stoned at 3:30—it doesn't sound so bad at that.

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  Beatrice Sparks

  Mom   Morning   Home  

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• Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

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  William Shakespeare

  Love   I Miss You   Good Night  

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 176

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• When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable. I have tasted of the hidden honey of this lotus that expands on the ocean of light, and thus I am blessed—let this be my parting word. In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play and here have I caught sight of him who is formless. My whole body and my limbs have thrilled with his touch who is beyond touch; and if the end comes here, let it come—let this be my parting word.

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  Rabindranath Tagore

  Ocean   Blessed   Light  

  Rabindranath Tagore (2014). “Gitanjali: Collection of Tagore Poems”, p.84, editionNEXT.com

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