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Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes
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Poet Quotes
Category:
English Poet Quotes
Date of Birth:
April 5, 1837
Date of Death:
April 10, 1909
Nationality:
English
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Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

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

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

While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.
Algernon Charles Swinburne



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