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Quotes by George Meredith - (19 quotes)

George Meredith - From the Aging category:

Don't just count your years, make your years count. (George Meredith)

George Meredith - From the Drunkenness category:

And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul. (George Meredith)

George Meredith - From the Fire category:

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, / Look we for any kinship with the stars. (George Meredith)

George Meredith - From the Gender category:

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. (George Meredith)

George Meredith - From the Immortality category:

Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes. (George Meredith)

George Meredith - From the Immortality category:

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. (George Meredith)

George Meredith - From the Jealousy category:

Jealousy is a love bed of burning snarl. (George Meredith)

George Meredith - From the Love category:

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination. (George Meredith)

George Meredith - From the Poetry category:

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong. (George Meredith)

George Meredith - From the Portraiture category:

Caricature is rough truth. (George Meredith)

George Meredith - From the Prayer category:

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. (George Meredith)

George Meredith - From the Prosperity category:

Chance works for us when we are good captains. (George Meredith)

George Meredith - From the Questions category:

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life! (George Meredith)

George Meredith - From the Silence category:

Speech is the small change of silence. (George Meredith)

George Meredith - From the Suffering category:

There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by. (George Meredith)

George Meredith - From the Truth category:

But O the truth, the truth. The / many eyes / That look on it! The diverse things / they see. (George Meredith)

George Meredith - From the Truth category:

We are betrayed by what is false within. (George Meredith)

George Meredith - From the Winning category:

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose. (George Meredith)

George Meredith - From the Wisdom category:

Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, / And the great price we paid for it full worth: / We have it only when we are half earth. / Little avails that coinage to the old! (George Meredith)