"Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit…" — Algernon Charles Swinburne
"Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me."
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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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For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.
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His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.
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More Condescend Quotes
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The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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If you gave wings to a cat, it would not condescend to be a bird. It would be an angel.
— Unknown Author
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Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms;…
— Samuel Johnson
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If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune; or what is better, the greatness of thy soul,…
— Laurence Sterne
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'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your…
— Jonathan Swift
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I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.
— E L Doctorow
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The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely…
— George Steiner
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is…
— William Butler Yeats
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Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew…
— Maureen Dowd
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