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leave behind
«All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.»
Author: Anatole France
(Writer)
| About:
Change
| Keywords:
behind, changes, die, enter, leave, leave behind, longed-for, longed, part
«. . . the crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.»
Author: E. M. Forster
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
crime, disregard, disregarded, disregarding, disregards, leave behind, suicide
«I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.»
Author: Henry R. Luce
(Editor, Publisher)
| About:
Journalism
| Keywords:
ably, leave behind, practiced
«Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| About:
Change,
Despair
| Keywords:
desperation, drastic, in the raw, leave behind, raw, raw material, raw materials
«I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.»
«Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
ahead, any, been, behind, behinds, get behind, kind, leave, leave behind, regret, should, There are
«But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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departing, footprint, footprints, leave behind, remind, sands, sublime
«Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Among the, leave behind, letters, memorial, memorials, significant