Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.


Oliver Goldsmith's History of the Earth, and Animated Nature (ed. 1854)

Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.