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“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
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear”
Mark Twain
“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
“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
“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.”
Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
“Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and kindles fires.”
François de la Rochefoucauld
“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
“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.”
Benjamin Franklin
