George Meredith Quotes - Page 4

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• The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

  George Meredith

  Men, Poetry, Gone

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• I know him, February's thrush, And loud at eve he valentines On sprays that paw the naked bush Where soon will sprout the thorns and bines.

  George Meredith

  Valentine, Thorns, Paws

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.8366, Library of Alexandria

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• Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.

  George Meredith

  Pain, Order, May

  'Vittoria' (1866) ch. 42

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• On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose, Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend . . . He reached a middle height, and at the stars, Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank. Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.

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  Stars, Tired, Dark

  'Lucifer in Starlight'

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• Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.

  George Meredith

  Stars, Sunset, Night

  George Meredith (2010). “The Egoist”, p.549, Broadview Press

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• A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.

  George Meredith

  Kissing, Sea, Honey

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.8026, Library of Alexandria

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• The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.

  George Meredith

  Born, My Friends

  George Meredith (2015). “Beauchamp's Career”, p.82, George Meredith

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• Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

  George Meredith

  Stars, Fire, Dying

  George Meredith (2010). “The Egoist”, p.549, Broadview Press

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• I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

  George Meredith

  Funny Inspirational, Women, Lasts

  'The Ordeal of Richard Feverel' (1859) ch. 1

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