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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

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The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged. – William Cowper

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Change
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Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing. – William Cowper

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As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. – Alcibiades

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The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

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To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment. – George Lansdowne

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Why can’t we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn’t work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. – Charles M. Schulz

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You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose. – Joaquin Phoenix

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George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agencys culture. He has failed. He should go. – Richard Perle

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Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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When told the reason for Daylight Saving time the old Indian said, “Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.” – Author Unknown

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