Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.
Absence - that common cure of love.
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.