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Change lays not her hand upon truth.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Age: 72 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 5
Died: 1909
Died: April 10
Literary Critic
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London
England
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And lo, between the sundawn and the sun His day's work and his night's work are undone: And lo, between the nightfall and the light, He is not, and none knoweth of such an one.
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In hawthorn-time the heart grows light.
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The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.
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There is no God found stronger than death and death is a sleep.
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There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate.
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Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.
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Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.
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At the door of life by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death.
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Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.
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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.
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Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise?
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There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.
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There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.
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Today will die tomorrow.
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I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.
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Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.
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To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.
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Change lays her hand not upon the truth.
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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.
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When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, accident or necessity seems usually to contrive that one shall encumber and impede the other.
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