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Absence - that common cure of love. -- Lord Byron
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. -- Ambrose Bierce
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. -- William Shakespeare
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. -- William Cowper
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others. -- Wayne Dyer
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. -- Mark Twain
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. -- Ronald Reagan
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. -- Nelson Mandela
Hell is God's Absence. -- Edmund White
Darkness is Absence of Light. -- Divya Chawla
Absence casts the longest shadow. -- Marty Rubin
Absence becomes the greatest Presence. -- May Sarton
Absence makes the loins grow hotter. -- Richard Castle
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. -- Thomas Fuller
Absence of pain makes anything possible -- Nicole Blackman
Absence, the highest form of presence. -- James Joyce
Love is the absence of judgment. -- Dalai Lama
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. -- Thomas Haynes Bayly
Absence makes the heart grow fonder -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Absence of occupation is not rest. -- William Cowper
Absence makes the heart go fonder -- Thomas Haynes Bayly
I dote on his very absence. -- William Shakespeare
Absence of proof isn't proof of absence. -- Robert Buettner
Absence of failure does not constitute success. -- Chris Alexander
Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it. -- Thomas Overbury
Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder. -- Judith Viorst
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. -- Martin Rees
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. -- Martin Rees
Absence of questions is not proof of answers. -- Sweety Shinde
Absence of proof is not proof of absence. -- William Cowper
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Absence makes the heart grow fonder"¦ or forgetful. -- James M. Barrie
Absence is the dark-room in which lovers develop negatives. -- H. L. Mencken
Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship. -- C.J. Langenhoven
Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required. -- W. Edwards Deming
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Prolonged absence makes the heart forget. -- Thomas Haynes Bayly
Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction. -- Mike Murdock
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it. -- Mark Twain
Absence really can make the heart grow fonder, even when the [man's] feet wander. -- Amy Dickinson
Absence of occupation is not rest a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed -- William Cowper
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. -- Helen Keller
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. -- William Cowper
Darkness is the absence of light. Absences do not exist. Sin does not exist . -- Rajneesh
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely. -- Charles M. Schulz
Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow. -- Ray Charles
Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it. -- Hannah More
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood. -- Elizabeth Ashley
Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye. -- Stephen King
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. -- Aleister Crowley
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great. -- Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. -- Umberto Eco
Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great -- Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear. -- William Shakespeare
Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air. -- Pablo Neruda
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. -- Baruch Spinoza
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other -- Freya Stark
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. -- Freya Stark
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. -- Pope Paul VI
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
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation. -- Anais Nin
When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain. -- Khalil Gibran
To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart. -- Samuel Lover
A short absence is safest -- Ovid
I dote on his very absence -- William Shakespeare
Total absence of humor renders life impossible -- Sidonie Gabrielle
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. -- Zhuangzi
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. -- Wole Soyinka
You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea. -- Earl Nightingale
One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers -- Margaret Thatcher
Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it. -- Bear Grylls
While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap. -- Ray Kroc
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. -- David Bowie
There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more. -- Sean Young
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of valu -- Alan Greenspan
The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility -- Arthur Miller
The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility. -- Arthur Miller
I Spy' represents the absence of the tension of the black man or black woman or anyone of that color walking in, so that the white racist person can become entertaining to a viewer. -- Bill Cosby
Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple. -- Jonathan Ive
For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. -- Natalie Dormer
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. -- Leo Rosten
I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it... It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity. That's what modernism means to me. -- Paul Rand
Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil. -- Richard Dreyfuss
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. -- Edmond de Goncourt
Conspicuous by his absence. -- Tacitus
Darkness is only light's absence. -- Andrew Clements
... the absence of theistic belief. -- Joseph McCabe
Judicious absence is a weapon. -- Charles Reade
Solitude: a sweet absence of looks. -- Milan Kundera
Relaxation is the absence of worry. -- Albert Brooks
Why is love intensified by absence? -- Audrey Niffenegger
Art is the absence of fear. -- Erykah Badu
Patience is the absence of expectation. -- Shinichi Suzuki
Consensus is the absence of leadership. -- Margaret Thatcher
The problem with death is absence -- Roger Rosenblatt
Your absence has gone through me -- W. S. Merwin
Love is the absence of Anxiety. -- Wilhelm Reich
A short absence is the safest. -- Ovid
Fear is the absence of faith. -- Paul Tillich
The absence of fear is love. -- Chris Murphy
Excellence prospers in the absence of excuses. -- Lorii Myers
Clear prose indicates the absence of thought. -- Marshall McLuhan
Your absence is the presence of godliness. -- Rajneesh
Total absence of humor renders life impossible. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Competition is merely the absence of oppression. -- Frederic Bastiat
Redneck is: the glorious absence of sophistication -- Jeff Foxworthy
Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect. -- Eric Hoffer
Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Being oppressed means the absence of choices -- bell hooks
The absence of war is not peace. -- Harry S. Truman
Courage is not the absence of fear -- Richard Stengel
The absence of disease is not health. -- Shawn Achor
Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, -- Jonathan Ive

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