George Meredith Short Quotes

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God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!

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A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

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What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

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Full lasting is the song, though he,
The singer, passes

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'Tis Ireland gives England her soldiers, her generals too.

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Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

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I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

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Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life...

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Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.

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Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.

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There is nothing the body suffers that the soul may not profit by.

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Into the breast that gives the rose,
Shall I with shuddering fall?

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The actors are, it seems, the usual three:
Husband and wife and lover.

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Civil limitation daunts
His utterance never; the nymphs blush, not he.

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And if I drink oblivion of a day,
So shorten I the stature of my soul.

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The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.

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We never know what's in us till we stand by ourselves (George Meredith, ORF)

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"How divine is utterance!" she said. "As we to the brutes, poets are to us."

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Behold the life at ease; it drifts,
The sharpened life commands its course.

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Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank,
The army of unalterable law.

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Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

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Prepare, You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods: Not like hard life, of laws.

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How many a thing which we cast to the ground,
When others pick it up, becomes a gem!

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On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose.
Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend.

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See ye not, Courtesy
Is the true Alchemy,
Turning to gold all it touches and tries?

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More brain, O Lord, more brain! or we shall mar
Utterly this fair garden we might win.

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Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.

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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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The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.

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A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that...

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