George Meredith Quotes

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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…
• She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
• Speech is the small change of silence.
• Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.
• Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.
• Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute…
• Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
• There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
• 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…
• The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
• Chance works for us when we are good captains.
• Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
• The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.
• I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
• Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
• Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them.
• Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
• That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
• The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.
• Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

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