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There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.
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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Time stoops to no man's lure.
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Change lays her hand not upon the truth.
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As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
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Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.
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Let weakness learn meekness.
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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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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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A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]
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There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.
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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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