Leaving

Famous quotes containing the word leaving:

“Great is the art,
Great be the manners, of the bard.
He shall not his brain encumber
With the coil of rhythm and number;
But, leaving rule and pale forethought,
He shall aye climb
For his rhyme.
“Pass in, pass in,” the angels say,”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven.”
—Henry Fielding (1707–1754)

“All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.”
—Amelia E. Barr (1831–1919)