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Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes: In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's truth or of light love's art, Only the song of a secret bird.
         

In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's truth or of light love's art, Only the song of a secret bird.


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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.

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.



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

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





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.

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.



The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.

The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.



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.

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.



When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.

When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.



Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.



His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.

His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.





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Surely it is more civilized to kill one man every few months, hold up his head for all to behold, say his name, and return home for a feast than to slaughter nameless millions.

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All he asks is that we trust Him, that we stand before Him in integrity and faith. God is just waiting for us to trust Him.



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[Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when they were rightly understood.



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