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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

I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried. — Daniel Keyes

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

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon — Oscar Wilde

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

No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest. — Algernon Sidney

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

The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature. — Algernon Sidney

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

I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading. — 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 apart
Flesh 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

Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here. — Daniel Keyes

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 gold
There 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

Swords were given to men, that none might be Slaves, but such as know not how to use them. — Algernon Sidney

For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust. — Algernon Charles Swinburne