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“Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.”

Long Past Memories Journey Characteristics Absent

Book:My Summer in a Garden

Source: My Summer in a Garden

“Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.”

Book:Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck

Source: Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck

“I carry around such a load of non-specific guilt that every time the metal detector beeps, I always have a wild fear that this trip I absent-mindedly packed a Luger.”

Guilt Metals Load Absent Metal Detectors

Author:Dan Greenburg

“Where love is absent there can be no woman.”

Love Women Love Is Absent

Author:George Sand

“Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.”

Art Reading Reader Skills Majority Complicated Subtle Minorities Communion Absent

Author:Julian Barnes

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

Speak Willing Speech Ill Absence Absent

Author:Propertius

“The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.”

Should Poetry Absent Haiku Self Glorification

Author:Anne Bancroft

“... if we are ashamed to imitate our Lord's sufferings, which He endured for us, and to suffer as He suffered, it is obvious that we shall not become partakers with Him in His glory. If that is true of us we shall be believers in word only, not in deed. When deeds are absent, our faith is dead.”

Ifs Christian Suffering Lord Glory Obvious Deeds Believer Ashamed Orthodox Absent Our Lord Orthodox Christian

Author:Symeon the New Theologian

“We learn to believe by believing. We learn to love by loving. The practice of acting on a certain thing, even (or especially) when feeling is absent, embodies the entire "how" of growth.”

Believe Feelings Certain Growth Acting Practice Learning Absent

Author:Eugenia Price

“Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.”

People Men Kind Age Lasts Morning Listening Old Age Old Man Breeze Absent Politeness Trumpets Absent Minded

Book:the hore's mouth

Source: the hore's mouth

“Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just as hard to work for as the volcanic boss, and both can do great harm by setting an unhelpful example for what kind of emotional expression is expected and accepted.”

Kind Hard Can Do Example Emotional Expression Harm Expected Accepted Setting Settings Managers Boss Blank Absent Emotional Expression

Author:Julian Baggini

“You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.”

Needs Done House Administration Senate Absent

Author:John Chafee

“I believe we were all glad to leave New Zealand. It is not a pleasant place. Amongst the natives there is absent that charming simplicity .... and the greater part of the English are the very refuse of society.”

Believe I Believe Greater Simplicity Refuse Glad Pleasant Charming Absent New Zealand

Book:Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle: Between the Years 1826 and 1836 ...

Source: Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle: Between the Years 1826 and 1836 ...

“I've only ever chosen men who happen to spend a lot of time out of the country, who have jobs that take them all over the world, and I think that's interesting because my father was absent, and then home, and I've always been in relationships where there's separation.”

Thinking Men World Country Home Happens Jobs Father Interesting Separation Chosen Absent

Author:Patsy Kensit