It is the devil's masterstroke to get us to accuse him George Meredith More Quotes by George Meredith More Quotes From George Meredith Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire. George Meredith necks flower broken The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it. George Meredith my-friends born I know him, February's thrush, And loud at eve he valentines On sprays that paw the naked bush Where soon will sprout the thorns and bines. George Meredith thorns valentine paws The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests. George Meredith atheism mind men Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done. George Meredith immense enjoy done Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two. George Meredith heart two mean A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil. George Meredith wine imagination house Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping George Meredith sunset stars night But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see. George Meredith diverse eye looks 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. George Meredith passion soul prayer And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul. George Meredith oblivion drink soul We know the degree of refinement in people by the matter they laugh at and the ring of the laugh. George Meredith laughter laughing people Behold the life at ease; it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course. George Meredith command ease life The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong. George Meredith poetry gone men I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two. George Meredith topsy-turvy men two Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. George Meredith felicity possession duty O have a care of natures that are mute! George Meredith mute care Woman's reason is in the milk of her breasts. George Meredith milk women reason The well of true wit is truth itself. George Meredith wit wells thinking Prepare, You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods: Not like hard life, of laws. George Meredith hard-life law love
