"To wipe off the froth of falsehood from……" — Algernon Charles Swinburne
"To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from the delirious riot of religion, may doubtless be a charitable office."
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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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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect…
— Joseph Addison
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Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while…
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I'm not sure what fame is for if it isn't to focus on charitable work.quot;
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Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
— Thomas Browne
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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom…
— Albert Camus
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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you…
— Maxim Gorky
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Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers,…
— August Strindberg
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He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
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The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.
— Robert Breault
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An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable.
— Swami Vivekananda
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