R. M. Ballantyne quotes
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“To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word - Farewell”
-- R. M. BallantyneSource : R. M. Ballantyne (2016). “The Coral Island: Illustrated”, p.239, Jester House Publishing
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“But although we have noticed the ark as being the first ship, we cannot with propriety place it in the front of the history of navigation. After the flood the ark seems to have been soon forgotten, or at least imperfectly remembered, and men reverted to their little canoes and clumsy boats, which sufficed for all their limited wants. It was not until about a thousand years later in the world”
-- R. M. Ballantyne
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Source : Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007
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“Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.”
Source : Aron Ralston (2010). “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, p.342, Simon and Schuster
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Source : Sir Arthur Bryant, Alan Brooke Alanbrooke (Viscount) (1957). “The Turn of the Tide: A History of the War Years Based on the Diares of Field-Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff”
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“The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.”
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Source : Carole Maso (2006). “The Art Lover”, p.26, New Directions Publishing
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“O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.”
Source : Aaron Hill (1760). “Muses in mourning. Zara, to which is added, an interlude, never before printed. Snake in the grass. Alzira. Saul. Daraxes. Merope. Roman revenge. Insolvent. Some love letters, by the author”, p.147
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