'Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.'

'Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh! believe it not I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.

A DEEP-SWORN VOW Others because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, Suddenly I meet your face.

Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering.

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. [Fr., L'absence diminue les mediocres passions et augmente les grandes, comme le vent eteint les bougies et allume le feu.]

Absence from whom we love is worse than death.

Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well!

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.