Absence

(237 votes)   A short absence is the safest.

Ovid
BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet

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(289 votes)   Absence -- that common cure of love.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(127 votes)   Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love.

Proverbs

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(134 votes)   Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering.

Walter Savage Landor
1775-1864, British Poet, Essayist

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

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(136 votes)   Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Thomas Haynes Bayly
1791-1839, British Writer, Poet

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(132 votes)   Achilles absent was Achilles still!

Homer
c. 850 -? BC, Greek Epic Poet

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(261 votes)   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.

Helen Rowland
1875-1950, American Journalist

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(362 votes)   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!

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(282 votes)   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
1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator

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(369 votes)   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
1788-1824, British Poet

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(317 votes)   Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars --all the beauties of creation.

Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(128 votes)   Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.

ª Ashleigh Brilliant
1933-, British-born American Humorist [Ashleigh Brilliant epigrams (BRILLIANT THOUGHTS ®) are individually protected by international copyright, and appear here by special permission. All rights reserved. Visit www.ashleighbrilliant.com]

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(259 votes)   Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Sir Matthew Hale
1609-1676, British Judge

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(266 votes)   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 the pleas of the heart.

Elizabeth Bowen
1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist

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