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Quote by William Cowper
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. – William Cowper

Other quotes by William Cowper

Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected — for who but learns in riper years. That man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected? – William Cowper

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Trust
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William Cowper
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. – William Cowper

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Happiness
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Goodbye
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Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. – Garrison Keillor

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Goodbye

A goodbye isn’t painful unless you’re never going to say hello again. – Author Unknown

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Goodbye

Where is the good in goodbye? – Meredith Willson, The Music Man (Thanks, Thomas)

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Goodbye

That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell! – Robert Pollok

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Goodbye

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Ive told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Society

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change – within himself, not on the outside. – Joseph Brodsky

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By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties. – Wilhelm Frick

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legal