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• To live and die in scenes like this, With some we 've left behind us.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- As slow our Ship...
• Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave, oh leave the light of Hope behind!
  What though my winged hours of bliss have been Like angel visits, few and far between....
• But Hope, the charmer, linger'd still behind.
  -- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- Pleasures of Hope, Part i, Line 40...
• Oh leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree!
  -- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- The Beech-Tree's Petitio...
• All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy
  for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselve...
• Tis home felt pleasure prompts the patriot's sigh; This makes him wish to live and dare to die.
  -- Campbell...
• Again to the battle, Achaians! Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance!
  Our land, the first garden of Liberty's tree, It has been, and shall yet be, the land of the free....
• Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse. -- James Dea
• We are born crying, live complaining, die disappointed.