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    Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body
    came to be called in question by it.

    by Found in Absence Quotes,
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For there's nae luck about the house;
There's nae luck at aw;
There's little pleasure in the read more

For there's nae luck about the house;
There's nae luck at aw;
There's little pleasure in the house
When our gudeman's awa.
- William Julius Mickle,

by William Julius Mickle Found in: Absence Quotes,
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They are good that are away.

They are good that are away.

by Scottish Proverb Found in: Absence Quotes,
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A DEEP-SWORN VOW
Others because you did not keep
That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;
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A DEEP-SWORN VOW
Others because you did not keep
That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;
Yet always when I look death in the face,
When I clamber to the heights of sleep,
Or when I grow excited with wine,
Suddenly I meet your face.

by William Butler Yeats Found in: Absence Quotes,
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death.

by William Cowper Found in: Absence Quotes,
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Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler,
And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler,
And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

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Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous,
one provision is conspicuous by its presence and read more

Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous,
one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its
absence.

by Lord John Russell (1) Found in: Absence Quotes,
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I dote on his very absence.

I dote on his very absence.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Absence Quotes,
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No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

by Aphra Behn Found in: Absence Quotes,
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