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• Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

  Nick Rahall

  Unique, Wilderness, Characteristics

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• The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.

  Meriwether Lewis

  Weather, Two, Foxes

  Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Thomas Rees (2010). “Travels to the Source of the Missouri River: And Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean 1804, 1805, and 1806”, p.213, Cambridge University Press

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• Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

  Hannah More

  Love, Fire, Water

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• Is not absence death to those who love?

  Alexander Pope

  Love, Saying Good Bye, Saying Goodbye Is Hard

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Memoirs of the life and writings of Pope. Recommendatory poems. A discourse on pastoral poetry. Pastorals. Messiah. Windsor forest. Odes. Two chorus's to the tragedy of Brutus. The dying Christian to his soul. An essay on criticism. The rape of the lock. Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate lady. Prologue to Mr. Addison's tragedy of Cato. Epilogue to Mr. Rowe's Jane Shore”, p.379

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• No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Roving, Made

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.67, Delphi Classics

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• The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Heart, Thinking, People

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Death Of The Heart”, p.163, Random House

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• Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Happiness, Laughter, Humor

  "Chance Acquaintances". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1952.

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• Being oppressed means the absence of choices

  Bell Hooks

  Mean, Choices, Oppressed

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.22, Routledge

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

  George Linley

  I Miss You, Missing You, Beautiful

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• Oft in the tranquil hour of night,
  When stars illume the sky,
  I gaze upon each orb of light,
  And wish that thou wert by.

  George Linley

  I Miss You, Missing You, Stars

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Love, Sky, Soul

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1861). “The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan”, p.226

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• Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friendship, Life And Love, Love Is

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.216

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• For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

  Jacques Lacan

  Units, Symbols, Uniqueness

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• Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

  Umberto Eco

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.380, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.

  Alcibiades

  I Miss You, Missing You, Long Distance Relationship

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• I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.

  Alexander Herzen

  Passion, Men, Feelings

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• The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Diversity, Joy, Life Is

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.156

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• In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Beauty, Sex, Males

  Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1841). “The Idler in France”, p.44

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• And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope - nothing else.

  Patti Davis

  False Hope

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• In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Clear Goals, Kaizen, Loyal

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• Conspicuous by his absence.

  Tacitus

  F. R. D. Goodyear, Tacitus (2004). “The Annals of Tacitus: Volume 2, Annals 1.55-81 and Annals 2”, p.316, Cambridge University Press

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• Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
  [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]

  Tacitus

  Portraits, Cassius, Brutus

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• Toxic thoughts leave no room for truth to flourish. And in the absence of truth, lies reign. Spend some time soaking in your favorite verses from Scripture tonight. The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths and toxic thoughts.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Lying, Mind, Toxic

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Feb 19, 2016

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• In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.

  Joseph Addison

  Pain, Grief, And Love

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of B. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection, and Macaulay's essay on his life and works”, p.428

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• Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, War, Rights

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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