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 in life.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Topics: Greatness
A little space of time before time expires; a little way of breath.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Topics: Time Management
Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Change lays her hand not upon the truth.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Topics: Change
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.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Man, a dunce uncouth, errs in age and youth: babies know the truth.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Topics: Children
Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and division make barren our lives.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Topics: Time Management, Time
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