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George Meredith [1828-1909] English
Rank: 102
Poet (with poems)

Victorian


George Meredith, OM was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era.

Beauty, Birthday, History, Imagination, Jealousy, Power



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Don't just count your years, make your years count. Birthday
101
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power. Beauty, Power
102
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
103
Memoirs are the backstairs of history. History
104
Bring the army of the faithful through.
105
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl. Jealousy
106
Caricature is rough truth.
107
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
108
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
109
Kissing don't last: cookery do!
110
She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
111
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 are.
112
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
113
Speech is the small change of silence.
114
There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.
115
I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
116
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
117
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination. Imagination
118
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
119
The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.
120
The well of true wit is truth itself.
121
The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
122

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