George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith, OMwas an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 February 1828
cheerful life-is
My religion of life is always to be cheerful.
marriage jilted heiress
Heiresses are never jilted.
eye light eagles
Days, when the ball of our vision Had eagles that flew unabashed to sun; When the graps on the bow was decision, And arrow and hand and eye were one; When the Pleasures, like waves to a swimmer, Came heaving for rapture ahead! - Invoke them, they dwindle, they glimmer As lights over mounds of the dead.
love winning conquer
She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!
soul answers certainty-in-life
What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life!
love law hard-life
Prepare, You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods: Not like hard life, of laws.
soul oblivion drink
And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.
pain order may
Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.
eye looks diverse
But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see.
prayer passion soul
Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.
laughter people laughing
We know the degree of refinement in people by the matter they laugh at and the ring of the laugh.
duty felicity possession
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
women milk reason
Woman's reason is in the milk of her breasts.
curiosity trying gold
See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries?