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A short absence is the safest.

Absence

PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

3.0 · 27 votes

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Absence - that common cure of love.

Absence

Miguel de Cervantes

PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

4.5 · 46 votes

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Absence and a friendly neighbour washes away love.

Absence

3.0 · 37 votes

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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Absence

Elizabeth Bowen

WriterIrish1899 · 19th century

3.1 · 26 votes

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Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.

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François de La Rochefoucauld

WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

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

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William Butler Yeats

PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

3.6 · 62 votes · 151 reads

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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Thomas de Quincey

AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

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Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

Absence

JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus

WriterRoman55 · 1st century

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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!

Absence

William Shakespeare

WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

5.0 · 56 votes · 176 reads

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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Alexander Pope
PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century
3.8 · 38 votes · 76 reads
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Never find fault with the absent.
Proverb
Anonymous
4.5 · 21 votes · 36 reads
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No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
Jean de la Bruyère
French1645 · 17th century
3.0 · 41 votes · 65 reads
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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.
Lord Byron
PoetBritish1788 · 18th century
4.6 · 64 votes · 145 reads
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Parting is such sweet sorrow.
William Shakespeare
WriterBritish1564 · 16th century
4.0 · 36 votes · 64 reads
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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
Walter Bagehot
EconomistBritish1826 · 19th century
3.6 · 38 votes · 81 reads
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
Benjamin Franklin
PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century
3.2 · 22 votes · 22 reads
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all th
Elizabeth Bowen
WriterIrish1899 · 19th century
3.8 · 48 votes · 127 reads
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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
PoetGerman1749 · 18th century
3.6 · 19 votes · 161 reads
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Woman absent is woman dead.
Ambrose Bierce
WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century
3.9 · 6 votes · 2 reads
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