S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880.

Absence

Absence, what the poets call death in love, has given occasion to beautiful complaints in those authors who have treated of this passion in verse.

Joseph Addison.

I distinguish a man that is absent because he thinks of something else, from him that is absent because he thinks of nothing.

Joseph Addison.

Absence destroys trifling intimacies, but it invigorates strong ones.