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 | ""T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I"ve
tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot." | |
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Frederick W. Thomas
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| "Absence ? that common cure of love." | |
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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| "Absence and death are the same ? only that in death there is no
suffering." | |
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Walter Savage Landor
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| "Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends." | |
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Elizabeth Bowen
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| "Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up
the blood." | |
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Elizabeth Ashley
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| "Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope
severer than despair." | |
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William Cowper
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| "Absence in love is like water upon fire; A little quickens, but much
extinguishes it." | |
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Hannah More
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| "Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small,
it enkindles the great." | |
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Comte de Bussy-Rabutin
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| "Absence makes the heart grow fonder: Isle of Beauty, fare thee
well!" | |
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Thomas Haynes Bayly
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| "Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it." | |
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Thomas Fuller
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| "Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "Be generous with kindly words,especially about those who are
absent." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman"s greatest sin,
except to be there when he doesn"t want her." | |
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Helen Rowland
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| "For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to
speak profanely) to be present with the Lord." | |
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Charles Lamb
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| "Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may
be increased by short intermissions." | |
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Samuel Johnson
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| "I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my
humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown
superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "I was absent at the moment I took up the most space." | |
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Albert Camus
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| "It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our
thoughts." | |
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Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette
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| "Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent." | |
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Propertius
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| "Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little
absence is an age." | |
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John Dryden
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| "Never part without loving words to think of during your Absence. It
may be that you will not meet again in life." | |
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Jean Paul Richter
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| "Out of sight, out of mind." | |
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Unknown
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| "Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it." | |
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Comte de Mirabeau
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| "Sometimes I need what only you can provide ? your absence." | |
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Ashleigh Brilliant
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| "The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves." | |
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Charles Reade
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| "The absent are never without fault, nor the present without
excuses." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear
it?" | |
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Nicholas Rowe
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| "The simple lack of her is more to me than others" presence." | |
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Edward Thomas
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| "Those not present are always in the wrong. Les absents ont toujours
tort." | |
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Philippe Nericault
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