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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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• 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?

  Fanny Kemble

  I Miss You, Missing You, Letting Go

  Fanny Kemble (1844). “Poems”, p.129

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• If, in your relationship with the Lord, you do not feel that He loves you tenderly, you are missing something, you still have not understood what grace is, you have not yet received grace which is this closeness.

  Pope Francis

  Love You, Grace, Lord

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• For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Life, I Miss You

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.72, Bantam Classics

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• When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail to recognize the luminous simplicity of mind that is always present behind the veils of thought.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Memories, Buddhism, Simplicity

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• In the hope to meet
  Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

  Ben Jonson

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.706

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• Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

  W. S. Merwin

  I Miss You, Missing You, Missing Someone

  William Stanley Merwin, “Separation”

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• The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• I'm truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs' death. The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come. For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Business, Impact

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• I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

  Adrienne Rich

  I Miss You, Missing You, Missing Someone

  Adrienne Rich (1971). “The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Best Friend, I Miss You, Missing You

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.

  Richard Wilbur

  Break Up, I Miss You, Broken Heart

  Richard Wilbur (2006). “Opposites, More Opposites, and a Few Differences”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Years, Waiting, Days Of The Year

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• When I go away from you
  The world beats dead
  Like a slackened drum.

  Amy Lowell

  I Miss You, Missing You, Missing Someone

  Amy Lowell (2009). “Sword Blades and Poppy Seed”, p.66, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When you miss me just look up to the night sky and remember, I'm like a star; sometimes you can't see me, but I'm always there.

  Jayde Nicole

  I Miss You, Valentines Day, Missing You

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• You left , and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  I Miss You, Missing You, Sorry

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  You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.

  John Green

  Moving On, Break Up, I Miss You

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• All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.

  William Shakespeare

  I Miss You, Missing You, Dream

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 43.

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• Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  I Miss You, Missing You, Goodbye

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.611, Delphi Classics

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• Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Witty, Fear

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.83, Pan Macmillan

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  We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Christian, Wisdom

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.213, Image

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• For everything you gain, you lose something.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  I Miss You, Missing You, Missing Someone

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.267, Рипол Классик

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• Often, the most extraordinary opportunities are hidden among the seemingly insignificant events of life. If we do not pay attention to these events, we can easily miss the opportunities.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 23, 2013

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• Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neatly the argument, shut their books and look for something else. Doing so, they miss an important and instructive phase of the work. ... A good teacher should understand and impress on his students the view that no problem whatever is completely exhausted.

  George Polya

  Teacher, Book, Hard Work

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• Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Romantic, I Miss You

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