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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
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Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character.
Source: Tractatus Politicus -
I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
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In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
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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.
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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
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Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
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Absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Source: Letter to Jonathan Swift (14 december 1725) -
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
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Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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