Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.


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Give your absence to those who take your presence for granted.
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Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches English Proverb
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That which strengthens love weakens it.
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The silence of my absence will make you realise the value of my presence.
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He that fears your presence will hate you absence.
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When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.
JANE ADDAMS
Quality is presence of value and not absence of mistake.
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Certainty is absence of infinity, infinity is presence of uncertainty.
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Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love.
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Hell [...] is the absence of God and the presence of Time.
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The absence of a message sometimes is a presence of one.
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Your presence only truly matters to people who feel your absence.
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Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the ability to act in the presence of fear.
BRUCE LEE
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
JODI PICOULT
If your presence doesn't make an impact, your absence won't make a difference.
TREY SMITH
Character is determined in the presence of temptation, and the absence of an audience.
ALEXANDRA LARSEN
Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
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As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
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My values are those you practice in my presence and those you conclude in my absence
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If your presence did not make an impact, then your absence will not make a difference.
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Always obey your parents - when they are present.
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Security is not the absence of danger, but the presence of God, no matter what the danger.
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Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.
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Don’t strive only to make your presence noticed, but make yourself such that your absence is felt.
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A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
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JOHN KEATS
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
HELEN KELLER
Love doesn't hurt it's the absence of it that does.
JAWAR
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
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I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
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No rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival. Turkish Proverb
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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
Your body is away from me,
but there is a window open
from my heart to yours.
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HELEN KELLER
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The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
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THOMAS MERTON
Absence - that common cure of love.
LORD BYRON
Love is the absence of judgment.
DALAI LAMA XIV
Absence -- that common cure of love.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Absence, that common cure of love.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Absence, that common cure of love.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
Why is love intensified by absence?
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER
Absence is the enemy of love
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