“To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.”
Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) British writer
Hallowed Ground (1825)
Variant: To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
“To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.”
Source: Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
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St. 7.
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As quoted in Flicker to Flame : Living with Purpose, Meaning, and Happiness (2006) by Jeffrey Thompson Parker, p. 118
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Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847) Scottish mathematician and a leader of the Free Church of Scotland
Source: Misattributed, P. 243. in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895). This is actually a quote from The golden chain; or, The Christian graces illustrated and enforced (1855) by John Harvey