“Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them”
Thomas Fuller
“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.”
Anatole France
“There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world; it’s the beginning of a new life.”
Rana Magdy
“Leave not a stain in thine honour.”
Bible
“God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain”
C.S. Lewis
“Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.All men make faults.”
William Shakespeare
“'Theocracy' has always been the synonym for a bleak and narrow, if not a fierce and blood-stained tyranny”
William Archer