"There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence."

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"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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"The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism."

Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Dramatist

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"Judicious absence is a weapon."

Charles Reade, English Novelist

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"I dote on his very absence."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for."

Pierre de Coubertin, French Leader

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"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself."

Henry B. Adams, American Historian

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"In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison."

Derek Bailey, English Musician

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"We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind."

John Robert Seeley, English Writer

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"Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best."

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"Respect is what we owe; love, what we give."

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"Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth."

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"Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him."

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"America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land."

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"Art is man's nature; nature is God's art."

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"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."

"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum."

"The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism."

"Judicious absence is a weapon."

"I dote on his very absence."

"Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for."

"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself."

"In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison."

"We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind."

"Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity."

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"Music tells no truths."

"Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade."

"Kindness is wisdom."

"Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell."

"We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best."

"Respect is what we owe; love, what we give."

"Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth."

"Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him."

"America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land."

"Art is man's nature; nature is God's art."