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Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Author: Thomas Haynes Bayly
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, . . .
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Traveller (l. 7)
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Achilles absent, was Achilles still.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
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.
Author: Ben Jonson
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!
Author: Francis Kazincy
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?
Author: Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (Mrs. Butler)
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.]
Author: Thomas a Kempis
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.
Author: Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia)
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.
Author: Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia)
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.]
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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.
Author: George Linley
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.
Author: George Linley
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,
Author: William Julius Mickle
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!
Author: Thomas Moore
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.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Eloise to Abelard (l. 361)
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Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
[Lat., Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit.]
Author: Sextus Propertius
Source: Elegioe (II, 19, 32)
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Days of absence, sad and dreary,
Clothed in sorrow's dark array,--
Days of absence, I am weary;
She I love is far away.
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Source: Days of Absence
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Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous,
one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its
absence.
Author: Lord John Russell (1)
Source: in an address to the Electors of the City of London
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I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia at I, ii)
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How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
What old December's bareness everywhere!
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Sonnet XCVII
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All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Sonnet XLIII
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very
circumstance that their portraits were absent.
[Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies
eorum non videbantur.]
Author: Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus)
Source: Annales (bk. III, ch. 76), from the funeral of Junia
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'Tis said that absence conquers love;
But oh! believe it not
I've tried, alas! its power to prove,
But thou art not forgot.
Author: Frederick William Thomas
Source: Absence Conquers Love
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Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
Author: Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Source: None
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Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.
Author: Ashleigh Brilliant
Source: None
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I dote on his very absence.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well!
Author: Thomas Haynes Bayly
Source: None
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.
Author: Elizabeth E. Bowen
Source: None
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Absence, that common cure of love.
Author: Miguel de Cervantes
Source: None
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death.
Author: William Cowper
Source: None
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Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great.
Author: Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
Source: None
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age.
Author: John Dryden
Source: None
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The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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'Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.'
Author: Charles Lam
Source: None
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The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.
Author: Charles Reade
Source: None
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Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering.
Author: Walter S. Landor
Source: None
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
Author: Colette
Source: None
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
Author: Thomas à Kempis
Source: None
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Is not absence death to those who love?
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: None
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They are good that are away.
Author: Scottish Proverb
Source: None
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The absent are always in the wrong.
Author: English Proverb
Source: None
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No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
Author: Aphra Behn
Source: None
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A DEEP-SWORN VOW
Others because you did not keep
That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;
Yet always when I look death in the face,
When I clamber to the heights of sleep,
Or when I grow excited with wine,
Suddenly I meet your face.
Author: William Butler Yeats
Source: None
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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