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I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure.

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!

All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.

Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.

'Tis said that absence conquers love, But oh! believe it not I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.

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

Sometimes I need what only you can provide your absence.

I dote on his very absence.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well!

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.

Absence, that common cure of love.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death.

Absence is to love what wind is to a fire, it puts out the little, it kindles the great.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, every little absence is an age.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

'Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.'

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

Absence and death are the same only that in death there is no suffering.

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.