No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.

Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to
speak it profanely) to be present read more

For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to
speak it profanely) to be present with the Lord.

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

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

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very
circumstance that their portraits were absent.
[Lat., Praefulgebant read more

Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very
circumstance that their portraits were absent.
[Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies
eorum non videbantur.]

'Tis said that absence conquers love;
But oh! believe it not
I've tried, alas! its power to read more

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