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There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.

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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Age: 72 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 5
Died: 1909
Died: April 10
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
London
England
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Yet leave me not yet, if thou wilt, be free love me no more, but love my love of thee.
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Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.
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The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty.
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Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
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A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]
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Fear that makes faith may break faith.
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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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Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her: Love lies bleeding.
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There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and rain and gold There shone one woman, and none but she.
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Where might is, the right is: Long purses make strong swords. Let weakness learn meekness: God save the House of Lords!
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Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.
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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.
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The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.
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I dore not always touch her, lest the kiss Leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss, Brief, bitter bliss, one hath for a great sin Nathless thou knowest how sweet a thing it is.
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The beast faith lives on its own dung.
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For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins.
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In hawthorn-time the heart grows light.
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The loves and hours of the life of a man, They are swift and sad, being born of the sea.
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My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.
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In friendship's fragrant garden, There are flowers of every hue. Each with its own fair beauty And its gift of joy for you. Friendship's Garden If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather.
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