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Heiresses are never jilted.
George Meredith
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George Meredith
Age: 81 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 12
Died: 1909
Died: May 18
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Portsmouth
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Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes.
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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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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.
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Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them.
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Behold the life at ease it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course.
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Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.
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The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.
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The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
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Chance works for us when we are good captains.
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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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My religion of life is always to be cheerful.
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See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries?
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Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
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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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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.
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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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Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.
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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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Woman's reason is in the milk of her breasts.
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The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.
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