“Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.”
"Epistle to Robert, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer" (1721).
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Alexander Pope158
eighteenth century English poet 1688–1744Related quotes
“You should not speak ill of an absent friend.”
Ne male loquare absenti amico.
Trinummus, Act IV, sc. 2, line 81.
Trinummus (The Three Coins)
“314. The absent partie is still faultie.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak.”
John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
Verse Letter to Sir Henry Woton, written before April 1598, line 1
Variant: More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
“Chicken and still later exports from India are absent in common Laurasian ritual.”
Michael Witzel (1943) German-American philologist
Witzel Michael. Origins of the World’s Myths (Oxford University Press 2013) (p.395)
“… my dear friend Poverty, nurse of philosophy”
Basil of Caesarea (329–379) Christian Saint
vol. 1, p. 29
Letters
“She that asks
Her dear five hundred friends.”
Source: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 642.