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George Meredith quotes: We are betrayed by what is false within We are betrayed by what is false within
George Meredith quotes: Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them. Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them.
George Meredith quotes: Prepare, You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods: Not like hard life, of laws. Prepare, You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods: Not like hard life, of laws.
George Meredith quotes: A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil. A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.
George Meredith quotes: Could I find a place to be alone with heaven,I would speak my heart out heaven is my need. Could I find a place to be alone with heaven,
I would speak my heart out heaven is my need.
George Meredith quotes: Woman's reason is in the milk of her breasts. Woman's reason is in the milk of her breasts.
George Meredith quotes: Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.
George Meredith quotes: She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won! She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!
George Meredith quotes: A dainty rogue in porcelain A dainty rogue in porcelain
George Meredith quotes: Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks. Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.
George Meredith quotes: The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it. The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.
George Meredith quotes: Kissing don't last: cookery do ! Kissing don't last: cookery do !
George Meredith quotes: Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end. Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.
George Meredith quotes: It is the devil's masterstroke to get us to accuse him It is the devil's masterstroke to get us to accuse him
George Meredith quotes: How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem! How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!
George Meredith quotes: Caricature is rough truth. Caricature is rough truth.
George Meredith quotes: Cynicism is intellectual dandyism. Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
George Meredith quotes: Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire. Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.
George Meredith quotes: And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul. And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.
George Meredith quotes: Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
George Meredith quotes: Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
George Meredith quotes: Bring the army of the faithful through. Bring the army of the faithful through.
George Meredith quotes: Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing. Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing.
George Meredith quotes: Swift doth young Love flee, And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream. Swift doth young Love flee, And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream.
George Meredith quotes: My religion of life is always to be cheerful. My religion of life is always to be cheerful.
George Meredith quotes: Memoirs are the backstairs of history. Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
George Meredith quotes: Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious. Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
George Meredith quotes: Don't just count your years, make your years count. Don't just count your years, make your years count.
George Meredith quotes: Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing, as we say, to die for each other, yet unwilling to utter the agreeable word at the right moment Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing, as we say, to die for each other, yet unwilling to utter the agreeable word at the right moment
George Meredith quotes: Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose. Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
George Meredith quotes: Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life! Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
George Meredith quotes: Chance works for us when we are good captains. Chance works for us when we are good captains.
George Meredith quotes: Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl. Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
George Meredith quotes: The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts. The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.
George Meredith quotes: George Eliot has the heart of Sappho; but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed animality. George Eliot has the heart of Sappho; but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed animality.
George Meredith quotes: Poetry is talking on tiptoe. Poetry is talking on tiptoe.
George Meredith quotes: But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see. But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see.
George Meredith quotes: The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong. The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
George Meredith quotes: The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination. The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
George Meredith quotes: I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
George Meredith quotes: What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature. What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.
George Meredith quotes: The debts we owe ourselves are the hardest to pay. The debts we owe ourselves are the hardest to pay.
George Meredith quotes: There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by. There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
George Meredith quotes: A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are. A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
George Meredith quotes: She poured a little social sewage into his ears. She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
George Meredith quotes: See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries? See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries?
George Meredith quotes: O have a care of natures that are mute! O have a care of natures that are mute!
George Meredith quotes: Behold the life at ease; it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course. Behold the life at ease; it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course.
George Meredith quotes: The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests. The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.
George Meredith quotes: A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power. A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
George Meredith quotes: When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks ... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable. When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks ... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.
George Meredith quotes: We never know what's in us till we stand by ourselves (George Meredith, ORF) We never know what's in us till we stand by ourselves (George Meredith, ORF)
George Meredith quotes: There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by. There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.
George Meredith quotes: God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman! God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!
George Meredith quotes: Heiresses are never jilted. Heiresses are never jilted.
George Meredith quotes: Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself. Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.
George Meredith quotes: Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life. Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.
George Meredith quotes: The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war. The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.
George Meredith quotes: I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two. I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two.
George Meredith quotes: Speech is the small change of silence. Speech is the small change of silence.
George Meredith quotes: Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two. Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.
George Meredith quotes: Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law. Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.
George Meredith quotes: We know the degree of refinement in people by the matter they laugh at and the ring of the laugh. We know the degree of refinement in people by the matter they laugh at and the ring of the laugh.
George Meredith quotes: The well of true wit is truth itself. The well of true wit is truth itself.
George Meredith quotes: Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done. Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.
George Meredith quotes: I know him, February's thrush, And loud at eve he valentines On sprays that paw the naked bush Where soon will sprout the thorns and bines. I know him, February's thrush, And loud at eve he valentines On sprays that paw the naked bush Where soon will sprout the thorns and bines.
George Meredith quotes: A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that ... A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that ...
George Meredith quotes: The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere. The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.
George Meredith quotes: As we to the brutes, poets are to us. As we to the brutes, poets are to us.
George Meredith quotes: Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay. Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.
George Meredith quotes: That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense! That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
George Meredith quotes: Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes. Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes.
George Meredith quotes: The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures. The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

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