#absent

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#bashful #distant #eyes #gentle #gentleman

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

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#attitude #before #change #connect #does

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#cause #consciousness #falsity #ignorance #inconstancy

Never find fault with the absent. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#fault #find #never

Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#always #among #ardor #better #fares

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#ill #speak #willing

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

— Charles Rangel

#absent #body talks #father #nobody #relationship

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#excuse #fault #never #nor #present