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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. p. 130.
Bertrand Russell
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
William Cowper
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
A short absence is the safest.
Ovid
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
Victor Hugo
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Ambrose Bierce
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
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
Johann von Goethe
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Ronald Reagan
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
Elizabeth Ashley
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 (George Gordon) Byron
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
Walter Benjamin
