"Time turns the old days to derision, Our……" — Algernon Charles Swinburne
"Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives."
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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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I tend to stay in character between scenes... to be rather serious on set, but here's why, and I think…
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One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to…
— Annie Besant
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When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.
— Brian Aldiss
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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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One does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.
— Louis Lecoin
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If we have power, we'll never give it up again unless we're carried out of our offices as corpses
— Joseph Goebbels
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try…
— Erica Jong
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Open up a few corpses: you will dissipate at once the darkness that observation alone could not dissipate.
— Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
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Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do.…
— Richard Dawkins
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The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do…
— Francois Mauriac
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Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against…
— Edward Dahlberg
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Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want…
— Helen Dunmore
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