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• Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

  George Meredith

  Duty, Felicity, Possession

  'The Egoist' (1879) ch. 14

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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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• 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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• Prepare, You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods: Not like hard life, of laws.

  George Meredith

  Love, Law, Hard Life

  George Meredith (2010). “The Egoist”, p.550, Broadview Press

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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.

  George Meredith

  Stars, Tired, Dark

  'Lucifer in Starlight'

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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.

  George Meredith

  Song, Voice, Giving

  George Meredith (1912). “Poems of George Meredith”, p.392, Library of Alexandria

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• For singing till his heaven fills,
  'Tis love of earth that he instills,
  And ever winging up and up,
  Our valley is his golden cup,
  And he the wine which over flows
  To lift us with him as he goes.

  George Meredith

  Wine, Heaven, Singing

  1883 Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth,'The Lark Ascending'.

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• Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.

  George Meredith

  Done, Enjoy, Immense

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.473, Library of Alexandria

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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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