Absent Quote by Charles Lamb

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

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

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To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.

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“I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading.”

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While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.

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Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.

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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.

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Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

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A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning…

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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.

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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that…

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My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.

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Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top…

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They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They seek each…

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The interesting thing about an absent father is, for a child, you don't know he's absent. You just think he's... tardy.

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For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man…

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If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are…

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“You may not appreciate the presence of good health, but you will definitely regret the absence of good health, because health is happiness.”

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... if we are ashamed to imitate our Lord's sufferings, which He endured for us, and to suffer as He suffered, it is obvious…

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It's Simon, he's missing." Ahh." said Magnus delicately "Missing what exactly?" Missing!" Jace repeated "As in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence,…

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Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is…

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They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy.…

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