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

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

George Meredith
Men, Poetry, Gone

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
Valentine, Thorns, Paws
George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.8366, Library of Alexandria

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

George Meredith
Pain, Order, May
'Vittoria' (1866) ch. 42

On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose, Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend . . . He reached a 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.

George Meredith
Stars, Tired, Dark
'Lucifer in Starlight'

Prepare, You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods: Not like hard life, of laws.

George Meredith
Love, Law, Hard Life
George Meredith (2010). “The Egoist”, p.550, Broadview Press

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.

George Meredith
Stars, Sunset, Night
George Meredith (2010). “The Egoist”, p.549, Broadview Press

A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.

George Meredith
Kissing, Sea, Honey
George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.8026, Library of Alexandria

The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.

George Meredith
Born, My Friends
George Meredith (2015). “Beauchamp's Career”, p.82, George Meredith

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 paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

George Meredith
Stars, Fire, Dying
George Meredith (2010). “The Egoist”, p.549, Broadview Press

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