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Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

- Tacitus

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

- Ouida

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

- Helen Rowland

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.

- La Rochefoucauld

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.

- Colette

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

- Alphonse de Lamartine

The absent are always wrong.

- English proverb

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

- Thomas Haynes Bayly

Absent in body, but present in spirit.

- Bible

Achilles absent, was Achilles still.

- Homer

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

- Propertius