Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
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How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere
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When the waves are round me breaking, As I pace the deck alone, And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest upon; What would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwell?Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!
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I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'
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The absence of war is not peace.
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Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
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If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
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The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Dogmatism does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
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Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame. (Maxims)
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It is suggested that, in domestic violence at least, the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detection and punishment.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be incompleteness in absence.
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'Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! Its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.
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Organizations rarely progress in absence of well defined codes of conduct and system to ensure that these are strictly adhered to. Same is true for society.
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars-all the beauties of creation.
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Absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.
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I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
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Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
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Our hours in love have wings in absence, crutches.
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