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• A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that.

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• ’Tis Ireland gives England her soldiers, her generals too.

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• For singing till his heaven fills ’Tis love of earth that he instils, And ever winging up and up, Our valley is his golden cup, And he the wine which overflows.

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• Soaring through wider zones that pricked his scars With memory of the old revolt from Awe, He reached the 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.

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• Enter these enchanted woods, You who dare.

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• ‘But do care a bit for flattery, my lady,’ said De Craye. ‘’Tis the finest of the Arts; we might call it moral sculpture. Adepts in it can cut their friends to any shape they like.’

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• A dainty rogue in porcelain.

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• Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.

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• O have a care of natures that are mute!

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• He fainted on his vengefulness, and strove To ape the magnanimity of love.

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• It became known that death had taken Mr Melchisedec Harrington, and struck one off the list of living tailors.

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• Kissing don’t last: cookery do!

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• Happy happy time, when the white star hovers Low over dim fields fresh with blooming dew, Near the face of dawn, that draws athwart the darkness, Threading it with colour, like yewberries the yew.

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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.

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• Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

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• There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.

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• The well of true wit is truth itself.

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• The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

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• The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

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• The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

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George Meredith (36)

Birth:	12th February, 1828
Death:	18th May, 1909
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Poet

About

George Meredith was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. He was an English novelist and poet. He wrote several novels include: The Shaving of Shagpat, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Farina, Vittoria, Evan Harrington, The Adventures of Harry Richmond, Beauchamp's Career, The House on the Beach, The Tale of Chloe, The Egoist, Diana of the Crossways, One of our Conquerors, The Amazing Marriage, Rhonda Fleming, Celt and Saxon, The Tragic Comedians, and Emilia in England. He wrote several poetry books include: Modern Love, A Faith on Trial, Ballads and Poems of Tragic Life, The Empty Purse, A Reading of Earth, A Reading of Life, Lucifer in Starlight, and Dirge in Woods.

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