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Cold autumn, wan with wrath of wind and rain,Saw pass a soul sweet as the sovereign tune
That death smote silent when he smote again. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Change lays her hand not upon the truth.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Though one were strong as seven,He too with death shall dwell,
Nor wake with wings in heaven,
Nor weep for pains in hell;
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
— Daniel Keyes
Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can't get into it do that.
— Oscar Wilde
God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.
— Algernon Sidney
His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran .
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed ... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.
— Algernon Sidney
No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.
— Algernon Blackwood
For beauty was her accident, and while admirable, was not a determining factor.
— Algernon Blackwood
A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A baby's feet.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Wendigo is simply the Call of the Wild personified, which some natures hear to their own destruction.
— Algernon Blackwood
Marvellous mercies and infinite love.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Liars ought to have good memories.
— Algernon Sydney Logan
The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.
— Oscar Wilde
A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Forest bellowed out its victory to the winds; the winds in turn proclaimed it to the Night.
— Algernon Blackwood
To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.
— Algernon Blackwood
Violence and fraud can create no right.
— Algernon Sidney
Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.
— Algernon Blackwood
The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.
— Algernon Blackwood
Beliefs are deeper than discoveries. They are eternal." Stahl
— Algernon Blackwood
For the worst is this after all; if they knew me, not a soul upon earth would pity me.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.
— Algernon Sidney
My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise?
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met; You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.
— Algernon Sidney
I may not have all the time I thought I had...
— Daniel Keyes
Invention has ever imagination and poetry at its heart.
— Algernon Blackwood
Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.
— Algernon H. Blackwood
While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
The loves and hours of the life of a man,They are swift and sad, being born of the sea. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.
— Algernon Sidney
That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.
— Algernon Sidney
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
— Algernon Sidney
It is the little things that pierce and burn and prick for years to come.
— Algernon Blackwood
I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Why am I always looking at life through a window?
— Daniel Keyes
The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.
— Algernon Blackwood
I am that which unloves me and loves; I am stricken, and I am the blow.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
In hawthorn-time the heart grows light.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.
— Algernon Sidney
A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.
— Algernon Blackwood
Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
across the pale glimmering of sand,
— Algernon Blackwood
Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
All the world is bitter as a tear
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
For till the thunder and trumpet be,Soul may divide from body, but not we
One from another — Algernon Charles Swinburne
All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.
— Algernon Sidney
Who's to say that death is better than your darkness?
— Daniel Keyes
Sorrow, on wing through the world for ever, Here and there for awhile would borrow Rest, if rest might haply deliver Sorrow ...
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.
— 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.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
The only question now is: How much can I hang on to?
— Daniel Keyes
The sweetest flowers in all the world- A baby's hands.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains.
— Algernon Blackwood
The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
— Algernon Sidney
Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.
— Daniel Keyes
For this was unpermissible, foolish, dangerous, and he meant to stop it in the bud. What
— Algernon Blackwood
For no man under the sky lives twice
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
But now, you are twain, you are cloven apartFlesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?
— Algernon Sidney
Save his own soul he hath no star.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
— Algernon Sidney
The Desert settled back to sleep,
— Algernon Blackwood
Oh, oh! This fiery height! Oh, oh! My feet of fire! My burning feet of fire!
— Algernon Blackwood
Love is more cruel than lust.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
In a land of sand and ruin and goldThere shone one woman, and none but she — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Ask nothing more of me sweet;All I can give you I give;
Heart of my heart were it more,
More would be laid at your feet.. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.
— Algernon Blackwood
Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.
— Algernon Sidney
I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed
— Algernon Blackwood
The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.
— Algernon Blackwood
He gave it the benefit of the doubt; he was Scotch.("The Wendigo") — Algernon Blackwood
Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
