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Quote by Colley Cibber
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. - Colley Cibbe

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. – Colley Cibber

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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. – Walter Benjamin

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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity. – Sir Matthew Hale

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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. – Ouida

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