"The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of……" — Algernon Charles Swinburne
"The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty ... a man with no loyalty in him, with no sense of love or reverence or devotion due to something outside and above his poor daily life, with its pains and pleasures, profits and losses, is as evil a case as man can be."
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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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