"For words divide and rend But silence is……" — Algernon Charles Swinburne
"For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end."
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
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72 Quotes by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived…
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Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead.
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In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part.
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Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
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Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And…
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Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.
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The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty.
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To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it,…
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To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any…
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Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with…
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His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.
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To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies…
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More Divide Quotes
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A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the…
— John Avlon
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
— Luis Barragan
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time…
— Arnold Bennett
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The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out…
— Tony Blair
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And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea.…
— Tony Blair
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
— H. Rap Brown
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I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.
— Robert Carlyle
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a…
— Unknown Author
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