Absence

"Greater things are believed of those who are absent."

"Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated."

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

"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 Decembers bareness everywhere."

"The absent are like children; they are helpless to defend themselves."

"Achilles absent, was Achilles still."

"Absent in body, but present in spirit."

"Whereer I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain."

"Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit."

"With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence—oer and oer again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!"

"Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrows dark array,— Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away."

"Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream."