Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Absence of occupation is not rest, a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death and frustrates hope severer than despair.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

God made the country and man made the town.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.

Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow’s dark array, – Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.