Absence. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Absence


In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet. Ben Jonson.—Underwoods, an Elegy.	1
Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it. Howell.—Familiar Letters, Book I., Section I., No. 6.	2
An hour or two Never breaks squares in love; he comes in time That comes at all; absence is all love’s crime. Beaumont and Fletcher.—The Widow, Act II. Scene 2.	3
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Thomas Haynes Bailey.—Isle of Beauty; Odes to Rosa.	4
What vigour absence adds to love. Flatman.—Weeping at parting, a song.	5
Absence in most, that quenches love, And cools the warm desire; The ardour of my heart improves, And makes the flame aspire. Cotton.—A Song, Verse 2.	6
Friends, though absent, are still present. Cicero.—On Friendship, Chapter VII.	7
He shone with the greater splendour because he was not seen. Tacitus.—Annals 3, 76.	8