#absent

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. ↗

— Lucretius

#apply #blows #dungeon #executioner #goad

When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart. ↗

— Derek Luke

#first #heart #put #reason #spirit

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#absent #body talks #father #nobody #relationship

My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#always #behind #dad #daughter #deserved

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#always #mind #out #sight #wrong

Greater things are believed of those who are absent. ↗

— Tacitus

#believed #greater #things #those #who

A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant. ↗

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#beauty #character #devoid #fragrant #gratitude

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#happiness #know #presence #rarely

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves. ↗

— Charles Reade

#children #defend #helpless #like #themselves

Woman absent is woman dead. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#dead #woman