George Meredith quotes - page 3

Cannon his name, Cannon his voice, he came. (George Meredith)
Enter these enchanted woods, You who dare. Nothing harms beneath the leaves More than waves a swimmer cleaves. Toss your heart up with the lark, Foot at peace with mouse and worm, Fair you fare. Only at a dread of dark Quaver, and they quit their form: Thousand eyeballs under hoods Have you by the hair. Enter these enchanted woods, You who dare. View quote
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The actors are, it seems, the usual three: Husband and wife and lover. View quote
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With patient inattention hear him prate. View quote
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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! View quote
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But how divine is utterance she said. As we to the brutes, poets are to us. View quote
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Swift doth young Love flee, And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream. View quote
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Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done. View quote
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O have a care of natures that are mute! View quote
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That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense. View quote
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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures. (George Meredith)
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. View quote
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Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire. View quote
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Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself. View quote
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Bring the army of the faithful through. View quote
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In...the book of Egoism, it is written, possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. View quote
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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. View quote
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Passions spin the plot; We are betrayed by what is false within. View quote
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Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harder blows, make acute and balanced observers. View quote
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Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar. View quote
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Prepare, You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods: Not like hard life, of laws. (George Meredith)
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. View quote
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