Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
George Meredith
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
George Meredith
Age: 81 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 12
Died: 1909
Died: May 18
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Writer
Portsmouth
England
Adversity
Profit
Suffering
Body
May
Soul
Nothing
Suffers
More quotes by George Meredith
Days, when the ball of our vision Had eagles that flew unabashed to sun When the graps on the bow was decision, And arrow and hand and eye were one When the Pleasures, like waves to a swimmer, Came heaving for rapture ahead! - Invoke them, they dwindle, they glimmer As lights over mounds of the dead.
George Meredith
That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
George Meredith
The well of true wit is truth itself.
George Meredith
Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.
George Meredith
Chance works for us when we are good captains.
George Meredith
Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.
George Meredith
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
George Meredith
Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.
George Meredith
Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes.
George Meredith
Woman's reason is in the milk of her breasts.
George Meredith
Could I find a place to be alone with heaven, I would speak my heart out heaven is my need.
George Meredith
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
The song seraphically free Of taint of personality, So pure that it salutes the suns The voice of one for millions, In whom the millions rejoice For giving their one spirit voice.
George Meredith
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
God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!
George Meredith
What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.
George Meredith
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
George Meredith
I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
George Meredith
How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!
George Meredith
We are betrayed by what is false within
George Meredith
