Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure Les jours s'en vont je demeure. Let night come, ring out the hour, The days go by, I remain.

-Kostrowitzki
  Les  Alcools,'Le Pont Mirabeau'.

His eyesight has always been weak, a sort of film over the eyes. A doctor advised him not to read, but he said, 'Then I should be ignorant', and he refused an operation because there was a thousandth chance he might go blind and so remain ignorant.

-Gregory, Lady Isabella Augusta ne¤  e Persse
  Of Sean O'Casey.  Journal entry, 8  Jun.

Nothing is wasted, nothing is in vain: The seas roll over but the rocks remain.

-Herbert, SirA(lan) P(atrick)
c.1949  From an operetta, Tough at the Top, published in My Life and Times (1970), ch.7.

And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.

-Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)
  A Shropshire Lad, no.18.

The Dutch may havetheir Holland, the Spaniard have his Spain, TheYankee to the south of us must south of us remain; For not a man dare lift a hand against the men who brag That they were born in Canada beneath the British flag.

-Johnson, Pauline
  'Canadian Born', collected in Flint and Feather (1912).