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«Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?»
«Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence»
Author: Maurice Maeterlinck (Essayist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Happiness | Keywords: absent
«In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come -- not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.»
«Imagination equals nostalgia for the past, the absent; it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality»
«Here comes Courage! that seized the lion absent, and run away from the present mouse»
«Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.»
«For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.»
«Friends, though absent, are still present.»
«He that fears you present will hate you absent»
Author: Thomas Fuller (Clergyman, Writer) | Keywords: absent, Hate You
«Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words.»

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