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.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear

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.

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

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

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

The absent are always in the wrong.

The absent are always in the wrong.

Absence, that common cure of love.

Absence, that common cure of love.

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

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

Absence from whom we love is worse than death.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death.