C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Meeting

The joy of meeting not unmixed with pain.

Longfellow.

In life there are meetings which seem
Like a fate.

Lord Lytton.

Absence, with all its pains,
Is by this charming moment wip’d away.

Thomson.

The joys of meeting pay the pangs of absence; else who could bear it?

Rowe.

Ah me! the world is full of meetings such as this,—a thrill, a voiceless challenge and reply, and sudden partings after!

Willis.

As two floating planks meet and part on the sea,
O friend! so I met and then drifted from thee.

Wm. R. Alger.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness:
So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Longfellow.

Sir, you are very welcome to our house; it must appear in other ways than words, therefore I scant this breathing courtesy.

Shakespeare.

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