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Chance works for us when we are good captains.

George Meredith

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George Meredith
Age: 81 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 12
Died: 1909
Died: May 18
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Writer
Portsmouth
England
Good
Captains
Works
Chance

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Could I find a place to be alone with heaven, I would speak my heart out heaven is my need.
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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.
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George Eliot has the heart of Sappho but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed animality.
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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 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.
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Woman's reason is in the milk of her breasts.
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Caricature is rough truth.
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The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
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Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.
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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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Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them.
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The well of true wit is truth itself.
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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.
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That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
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What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.
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Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
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Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: an unusual combination, in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her.
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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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Behold the life at ease it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course.
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