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George Meredith
Age: 81 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 12
Died: 1909
Died: May 18
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Writer
Portsmouth
England
Truth
Caricature
Caricatures
Rough
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Art

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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 house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.
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The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
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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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Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
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How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!
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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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Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.
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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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Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes.
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Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
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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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See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries?
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Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.
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The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.
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She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.
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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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My religion of life is always to be cheerful.
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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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