So up and down I sow them For lads like me to find, When I shall lie below them, A dead man out of mind.
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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
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out of sight, out of mind.
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Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.
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Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
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And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind
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