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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

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

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

We are not sure of sorrow; and joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure. — 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

For the worst is this after all; if they knew me, not a soul upon earth would pity me. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

You have a face that suits a woman
For her soul's screen
The sort of beauty that's called human
In hell, Faustine. — 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

Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease. — 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

Save his own soul he hath no star. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

across the pale glimmering of sand, — Algernon Blackwood

Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred. — Algernon Blackwood

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

That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed. — Algernon Sidney

In hawthorn-time the heart grows light. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

All the world is bitter as a tear — 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

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery. — Algernon Sidney

I may not have all the time I thought I had... — Daniel Keyes

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

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

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

Time stoops to no man's lure. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small. — Algernon Sidney

Our way is where God knows
And Love knows where:
We are in Love's hand to-day. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

For till the thunder and trumpet be,
Soul may divide from body, but not we
One from another — Algernon Charles Swinburne

On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things, death only dies. — 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

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

I am that which unloves me and loves; I am stricken, and I am the blow. — 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

There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

Who's to say that death is better than your darkness? — Daniel Keyes

All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate. — Algernon Sidney

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

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

For this was unpermissible, foolish, dangerous, and he meant to stop it in the bud. What — Algernon Blackwood

Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted. — Algernon Sidney

For no man under the sky lives twice — Algernon Charles Swinburne

The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains. — Algernon Blackwood

The sweetest flowers in all the world- A baby's hands. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart
Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made? — Algernon Sidney

Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

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

Forget that I remember And dream that I forget. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

He gave it the benefit of the doubt; he was Scotch.
("The Wendigo") — 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

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

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

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

I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns. — Algernon Blackwood

Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

In a land of sand and ruin and gold
There shone one woman, and none but she — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Love is more cruel than lust. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Oh, oh! This fiery height! Oh, oh! My feet of fire! My burning feet of fire! — Algernon Blackwood

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

The Desert settled back to sleep, — Algernon Blackwood

The only question now is: How much can I hang on to? — Daniel Keyes

The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy. — 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

As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead. — Algernon Charles Swinburne