“There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence”
Philip James Bailey
“Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.”
William Shakespeare
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
Dr. Carl Sagan
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”
Ambrose Redmoon
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear”
Mark Twain
“Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.”
“Absence in love is like water on fire, a little quickens, but much extinguishes”
Hannah Moore
