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Absence, that common cure of love.
Absence, that common cure of love.
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
Sometimes I need what only you can provide -- your absence.
Sometimes I need what only you can provide -- your absence.
The absent are always in the wrong.
The absent are always in the wrong.
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a read more
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.
How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What read more
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!
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.
Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.
Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.