Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

—Thomas Fuller

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About Thomas Fuller

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Thomas Fuller (baptised 19 June 1608; died 16 August 1661) was an English churchman and historian. He is now remembered for his writings, particularly his Worthies of England, published in 1662, after his death. He was a prolific author, and one of the first English writers able to live by...

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Enquire not what boils in another's pot.

—Thomas Fuller

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

—Thomas Fuller

He that will not sail until all dangers are over, will never put to sea.

—Thomas Fuller

Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.

—Thomas Fuller

Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise.

—Thomas Fuller

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I dote on his very absence.

—William Shakespeare

You see, for me, memories are difficult. Very often, they hurt. A curious thing about grief is the way it takes your entire life, all those foundational years that made you who you are, and makes them so painful to look back upon because of the absence there, that suddenly they're inaccessible.

—Casey McQuiston in White & Royal Blue

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What was it about life now? The people who weren't present always seemed to be more important than the people who were.

—Elin Hilderbrand in Beautiful Day

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There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realize that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realize, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, though you can put your hand out to where things were and feel that tense, shining dullness of the space where the memories are.

—Helen Macdonald in H is for Hawk

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Absence—that common cure of love.

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