Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

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Absence never makes the heart grow fonder because those who are out of sight are out of mind.
VIKRANT PARSAI

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THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
SEXTUS PROPERTIUS

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
AMERICAN PROVERB

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Absence makes the heart grow fonder
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well!
THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Absence makes the heart grow fonder, / Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well!
THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY

If absence makes the heart grow fonder, some people must really love church.
UNKNOWN

If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.
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GARY F EVANS...

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DOUGLAS COUPLAND

We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
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ARZELL

I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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We decide to go out walking the wh...
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BEN COHEN

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
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ELIZABETH ASHLEY Excess makes the heart grow fonder...
JOHN BALANCE Distance makes the heart grow fonder.
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The universe may for...
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GARY F EVANS... We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It may likewise contribute to soften that resentment which pride naturally raises against opposition...
SAMUEL JOHNSON You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that...

So, what next!?...
DEYTH BANGER Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder for someone else
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BRETT BASANEZ Part of what my work has always been about is to show that the apocalyptic character of the gospel m...
STANLEY HAUERWAS When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed do...
ALEXANDER BELL When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed do...
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed do...
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome gree...
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.
ALBERT EINSTEIN If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in firs...
PETER MCWILLIAMS There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the...
FREDERICK BUECHNER We must also realize that nothing happens without a purpose. Nothing. Not even broken hearts. Not ev...
YASMIN MOGAHED We are so fascinated by the complexity and beauty of the various forms in nature, that we have been ...
JOSEPH P. KAUFFMAN I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add a...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON That's SHIT!

How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
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GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune,that makes us suffer like the d...
FRANZ KAFKA I think after we lost that lead it took a lot out of us emotionally. After taking that big lead, it'...
DEAN BELLANTI It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; ...
ANAIS NIN We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; ...
ANAïS NIN We have talked and I think that it is going in the right direction for both of us, ... We both need ...
JENSON BUTTON No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus t...
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ANTISTHENES We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another ...
UNKNOWN We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another r...
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ELLIOT SCHRAGE Every little gracious act adds to the quotient of grace in the world - how gracious can you be today...
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BRIAN WINTER It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the olde...
H. RIDER HAGGARD A superior personality will give us the ability to be cautious by giving us the knowledge and unders...
CHARLENA JACKSON Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us ...
CLIVE BARKER We have to figure out a way before we don't have a chance to preserve what's here that makes us want...
DAVID HARTWELL He told us before that regardless of what happened, he would come back and finish out the year with ...
AL GOODEN The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY Loss pushes us to difficult places where we have not been before. We often question whether or not w...
SUSAN BARBARA APOLLON Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ...
WALLACE STEGNER We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but...
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LEO TOLSTOY

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

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