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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”
Ambrose Redmoon Quotes |
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“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.”
Comte DeBussy-Rabutin Quotes |
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“Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.”
William Shakespeare Quotes |
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“Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.”
William Shakespeare Quotes |
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“Sometimes I need what only you can provide -- your absence.”
Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes |
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“There is one pain I often feel, which you will never know. It is caused by the absence of you.”
William Shakespeare Quotes |
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“Absence - that common cure of love.”
Lord Byron Quotes |
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“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
Thomas Haynes Bayly Quotes Source: Isle of Beauty
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“For I verily, absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged
already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so
done this deed, . . .”
Bible Quotes Source: I Corinthians (ch. V, v. 3)
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“Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler,
And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto III, st. 22)
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“Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see,
My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee;
Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain,
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: The Traveller (l. 7)
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“Achilles absent, was Achilles still.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. 22, l. 415), (Pope's translation)
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“In the hope to meet
Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.”
Ben Jonson Quotes Source: Underwoods--Miscellaneous Poems (LIX)
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“Ever absent, ever near;
Still I see thee, still I hear;
Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!”
Francis Kazincy Quotes Source: Separation
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“What shall I do with all the days and hours
That must be counted ere I see thy face?
How shall I charm the interval that lowers
Between this time and that sweet time of grace?”
Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (Mrs. Butler) Quotes Source: Absence
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“But when he (man) shall have been taken from sight, he quickly
goes also out of mind.
[Lat., Cum autem sublatus fuerit ab oculis, etiam cito transit a
mente.]”
Thomas a Kempis Quotes Source: Imitation of Christ (bk. I, ch. XXIII, 1)
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“Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body
came to be called in question by it.”
Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia) Quotes Source: Amicus Redivivus
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“For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to
speak it profanely) to be present with the Lord.”
Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia) Quotes Source: Oxford in the Vacation
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“Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as
the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
[Fr., L'absence diminue les mediocres passions et augmente les
grandes, comme le vent eteint les bougies et allume le feu.]”
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Quotes Source: Maximes (276)
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“Oft in the tranquil hour of night,
When stars illume the sky,
I gaze upon each orb of light,
And wish that thou wert by.”
George Linley Quotes Source: Song
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“Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream.
And I seek then in vain by the meadow and stream.”
George Linley Quotes Source: Thou Art Gone
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“For there's nae luck about the house;
There's nae luck at aw;
There's little pleasure in the house
When our gudeman's awa.
- William Julius Mickle,”
William Julius Mickle Quotes Source: There's Nae Luck About the House--Ballad of Cumnor Hall
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“With what a deep devotedness of woe
I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again
Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain,
And memory, like a drop that, night and day,
Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!”
Thomas Moore Quotes Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
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“Condemned whole years in absence to deplore,
And image charms he must behold no more.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Eloise to Abelard (l. 361)
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