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The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.
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Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul
When hot for certainties in this our life! -
In tragic hints here see what evermore
Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force,
Thundering like ramping hosts of warrior horse,
To throw that faint thin fine upon the shore!
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It's past parsons to console us:
No, nor no doctor fetch for me:
I can die without my bolus;
Two of a trade, lass, never agree!
Parson and Doctor!—don't they love rarely
Fighting the devil in other men's fields!
Stand up yourself and match him fairly:
Then see how the rascal yields!
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She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.
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She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer,
Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!
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In tragic life, God wot,
No villain need be! Passions spin the plot:
We are betrayed by what is false within.
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There is nothing the body suffers that the soul may not profit by.
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But O the truth, the truth! the many eyes
That look on it! the diverse things they see!
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Behold the life at ease; it drifts,
The sharpened life commands its course.
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Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
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Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers.
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God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!
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What are we first? First, animals; and next
Intelligences at a leap; on whom
Pale lies the distant shadow of the tomb,
And all that draweth on the tomb for text.
Into which state comes Love, the crowning sun:
Beneath whose light the shadow loses form.
We are the lords of life, and life is warm.
Intelligence and instinct now are one.
But nature says: 'My children most they seem
When they least know me: therefore I decree
That they shall suffer.' Swift doth young Love flee,
And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream.
Then if we study Nature we are wise.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
George Meredith
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Born:
February 12, 1828
Died:
May 18, 1909
(aged 81)
Bio:
George Meredith was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era.
Known for:
The Egoist (1879)
Modern Love (1891)
Diana of the Crossways (1885)
The Shaving of Shagpat (1856)
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