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George Gissing [1857-1903] British

Rank: 101
Novelist

George Robert Gissing was an English novelist who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. Gissing also worked as a teacher and tutor throughout his life. He published his first novel, Workers in the Dawn, in 1880.

Beauty, Courage, Money, Truth

Quote	Tags	Rank
For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.	Beauty	101
It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.		102
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.	Money, Truth	103
Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.		104
Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.		105
Have the courage of your desire.	Courage	106
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.		107
It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.		108
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.		109
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.		110

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