Absence
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- No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.
- Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
- Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars --all the beauties of creation.
- Woman absent is woman dead.
- When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
- Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
- The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
- Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
- No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
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Quotations About This Subject:
- No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.
- Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
- Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars --all the beauties of creation.
- Woman absent is woman dead.
- When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
- Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
- The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
- Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
- No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
