"Absence makes the heart grow fonder."

"No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea."

"ABSENT, adj. Peculiarly exposed to the tooth of detraction; vilifed; hopelessly in the wrong; superseded in the consi…"

"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends."

"Wives in their husband's absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler."

"Absence! is not the soul torn by it From more than light, or life, or breath? 'Tis Lethe's gloom, but not its quiet,—…"

"Friends, though absent, are still present."

"It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline an…"

"The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse."

"They say absence makes the heart grow fungus."