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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Relationship, Lonely

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• The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cynical, Faults, Excuse

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.36, Nayika Publishing

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• Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Long Distance Relationship, Wings, Distance Love

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• Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

  William Cowper

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1836). “Miscellaneous poems. Olney hymns. Anti-Thelyphthora. Table talk and other poems. Translations from Vincent Bourne”, p.28

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• In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

  Alan Greenspan

  Safety, Gold, Saving

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.94, Penguin

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• I dote on his very absence.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Love You

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [117]

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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

  Distance, Blow, Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

  James Neil Hollingworth

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

  Mark Twain

  Spiritual, Believe, Doubt

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• Achilles absent was Achilles still!

  Homer

  Achilles, Absent Mindedness, Stills

  Homer (1818). “The Iliad of Homer. Translated by A. Pope. A new edition. Adorned with plates”, p.476

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• There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It's caused by the absence of you.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Pain, Love You, Broke Up

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• Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

  Henry Adams

  Responsibility, Liberty, Ignoring Facts

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.30, Penguin

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• Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Hate, Grief

  "Of the Heart". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

  Leonard Cohen

  Dream, Deeds Done, Good Deeds

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.156, Emblem Editions

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• The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

  Thomas Paine

  Religious, Bipolar, Religion

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• Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

  Theodor Adorno

  Life, Ideology

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• Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Men, Heritage

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• Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

  William Cowper

  Wisdom, Relaxation, Mind

  William Cowper, James Montgomery (1825). “Poems of William Cowper ... With an introductory essay by James Montgomery ... Second edition”, p.240

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• The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, Absent, Ideals

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• Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Opportunity, Wells, Absent

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• Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

  Salman Rushdie

  Reality, What Matters, Matter

  1981 Midnight's Children,'Alpha and Omega', bk.2.

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• God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Solitude

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

  Wole Soyinka

  Inspirational, Criticism, Threat

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• Parting is such sweet sorrow

  William Shakespeare

  Sad Love, Sweet, Sorrow

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 176

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• A short absence is the safest.

  Ovid

  Safety

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