"If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!"

Absence, Change, Joy, Life

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"If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!"

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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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"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value."

Alan Greenspan, American Economist

Absence, Gold, Inflation, Value

"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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". . . nobody in particular is to blame, that I can see, for the state in which things are . . ."

Realism, Blame, Responsibility, Truth, Reality

"Jane, will you marry me?""Yes sir.""A poor blind man, whom you will have to lead about by the hand?""Yes, sir.""A crippled man, twenty years older older than you, whom you will have to wait on?""Yes, sir.""Truly, Jane?""Most truly, sir."

Commitment, Love, Disability, Trust

"Youth is gone -- gone -- and will never come back: can't help it."

Aging, Youth, Loss, Time, Acceptance

"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."

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"I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman."

Suffering, Calamity, Selfishness, Pain

"True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it."

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"You have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and a faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose then, your heart has been weeping blood?"

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"Entering by the carré, a piece of mirror-glass, set in an oaken cabinet, repeated my image. It said I was changed: my cheeks and lips were sodden white, my eyes were glassy, and my eyelids swollen and purple. On rejoining my companions, I knew they all looked at me - my heart seemed discovered to them: I believed myself self-betrayed. Hideously certain did it seem that the very youngest of the school must guess why and for whom I despaired."

Despair, Emotion, Grief, Isolation

"You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream."

Illusion, Dream, Reality, Mystery

"They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathise with one amongst them; a heterogeneous thing, opposed to them in temperament, in capacity, in propensities; a useless thing, incapable of serving their interest, or adding to their pleasure; a noxious thing, cherishing the germs of indignation at their treatment, of contempt of their judgment. I know that had I been a sanguine, brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child-though equally dependent and friendless-Mrs. Reed would have endured my presence more complacently; her children would have entertained..."

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