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Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
George Meredith
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George Meredith
Age: 81 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 12
Died: 1909
Died: May 18
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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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Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.
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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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See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries?
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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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Caricature is rough truth.
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There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
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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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The well of true wit is truth itself.
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We are betrayed by what is false within
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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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Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them.
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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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Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.
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Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
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What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.
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The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
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Behold the life at ease it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course.
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God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!
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Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.
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