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In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me. - Joseph Addison As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. - Alcibiades Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood. - Elizabeth Ashley Absence makes the heart grow fonder; Isle of Beauty, fare thee well! - Thomas Haynes Bayly (Bayley), Isle of Beauty, phrase first found in anonymous poem within F. Davison's Poetical Rhapsody (1602) Absence is all love's crime. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher 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, . . . - Bible, I Corinthians (ch. V, v. 3) Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. - Samuel Butler (1) 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto III, st. 22) The absent fell and fear every ill. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. - William Cowper Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is. - William Cowper I believe absence is a great element of charm. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield 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. - Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller (l. 7) Achilles absent, was Achilles still. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Iliad (bk. 22, l. 415), (Pope's translation) I find that absence still increases love. - Charles Hopkins, To C.C. It is absence that tries fidelity. - Anne Home Hunter (Mrs. John Hunter) Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet. - Ben Jonson, Underwoods--Miscellaneous Poems (LIX) Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear! - Francis Kazinczy, Separation 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? - Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (Mrs. Butler), Absence 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.] - Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ (bk. I, ch. XXIII, 1) Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it. - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia), Amicus Redivivus For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with the Lord. - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia), Oxford in the Vacation Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind will blow out a candle and blow in a fire. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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