"When I hear that a friend has fallen……" — Algernon Charles Swinburne
"When I hear that a friend has fallen into matrimony, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism."
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
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72 Quotes by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne has 72 quotes on this site.
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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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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a…
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Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.
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Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just…
— Christian Bale
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form…
— Jean Baudrillard
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With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone…
— Saul Bellow
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When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills…
— Hal Borland
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But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart…
— Edie Brickell
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The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.
— George W. Bush
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Remember, you must not sleep at the Seder. If you do, Elijah the Prophet will come with a bag on…
— Sholom Aleichem
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It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much…
— Donald Cargill
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