Quote#Love
Absence from whom we love is worse than death
Quote byWilliam Cowper · 1731–1800
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Hope, like the short-lived ray", l. 35 (wr. c. 1757; pub. 1825).
English (original)
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, And frustrate hope severer than despair.
— William Cowper
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