Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
--Algernon Charles Swinburne
Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
--Algernon Charles Swinburne
Change lays not her hand upon truth.
--Algernon Charles Swinburne
Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead.
--Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fear that makes faith may break faith; and a fool Is but in folly stable.
--Algernon Charles Swinburne
Forget that I remember
And dream that I forget.
--Algernon Charles Swinburne
Is not Precedent indeed a King of men?
--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
Love is more cruel than lust.
--Algernon Charles Swinburne
My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain
When time and God give judgment.
--Algernon Charles Swinburne
The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty ... a man with no loyalty in him, with no sense of love or reverence or devotion due to something outside and above his poor daily life, with its pains and pleasures, profits and losses, is as evil a case as man can be.
--Algernon Charles Swinburne
The sweetest flowers in all the world- A baby's hands.
--Algernon Charles Swinburne
There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.
--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
To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from the delirious riot of religion, may doubtless be a charitable office.
--Algernon Charles Swinburne
Today will die tomorrow.
--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
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