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

Absence, Difficulty, Grace, Hesitation

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"In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State."

Patrick J. Kennedy, American Politician

Absence, Children, Parents

"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Absence, Fans, Wind

"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."

Henry A. Kissinger, American Statesman

Absence, Mind

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

Nick Rahall, American Politician

Absence, Wilderness

"In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while."

George Grosz, German Artist

Absence, Man, Military, Months

"God's absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request that He leave. And if we are not brutally honest with ourselves regarding that choice, it is we ourselves who have set the stage for the next tragedy."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Absence, Truth, Regret, Power, Inspirational

"That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter."

Edward Everett, American Statesman

Absence, Battle, Doubt

"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

Absence, Mind, World

"I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed."

George Combe, American Educator

Absence, Attention

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

Philip James Bailey, English Poet

Absence, Excellence

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"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."

Home

"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."

Friendship

"There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us."

Truth

"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."

Literature

"We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit."

Self

"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."

Religion

"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."

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"In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State."

"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."

"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."

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

"In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while."

"God's absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request that He leave. And if we are not brutally honest with ourselves regarding that choice, it is we ourselves who have set the stage for the next tragedy."

"That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter."

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

"I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed."

"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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"The incentive to ambition is the love of power."

"I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about."

"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."

"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."

"There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us."

"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."

"We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit."

"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."

"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."