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Quotes from Modern Love — George Meredith

1828–1909 England

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8 quotes

How many a thing which we cast to the ground,
When others pick it up, becomes a gem!

Modern Love (1862)

The actors are, it seems, the usual three:
Husband and wife and lover.

Modern Love (1862)

More brain, O Lord, more brain! or we shall mar
Utterly this fair garden we might win.

Modern Love (1862)

In tragic life, God wot,
No villain need be! Passions spin the plot:
We are betrayed by what is false within.

Modern Love (1862)

And if I drink oblivion of a day,
So shorten I the stature of my soul.

Modern Love (1862)

'I play for Seasons; not Eternities!'
Says Nature.

Modern Love (1862)

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul
When hot for certainties in this our life! -
In tragic hints here see what evermore
Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force,
Thundering like ramping hosts of warrior horse,
To throw that faint thin fine upon the shore!

Modern Love (1862)

Not till the fire is dying in the grate,
Look we for any kinship with the stars.
Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold,
And the great price we pay for it full worth:
We have it only when we are half earth.

Modern Love (1862)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Meredith (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.