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

Quote by George Meredith

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George Meredith

George Meredith was an influential English novelist known for his profound psychological portrayals and complex character development. His works often delve into social and moral issues, exploring the pursuit of personal freedom. Born on February 12, 1828, he passed away on May 18, 1909. more

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“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!”

Soul Moving Force Dark Answers Our Lives Fine Ocean Horse Hot Certainty Warrior Tragic Shore Host Midnight Hints Evermore

Book:Poems of George Meredith

Source: Poems of George Meredith

“Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.”

Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith

“She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.”

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Book:The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative

Source: The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative

“Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing.”

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Book:Poems of George Meredith

Source: Poems of George Meredith

“The song seraphically free Of taint of personality, So pure that it salutes the suns The voice of one for millions, In whom the millions rejoice For giving their one spirit voice.”

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Book:Poems of George Meredith

Source: Poems of George Meredith

“Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders insipid, nor the soldier, of whom it makes a coward, nor the woman whose beauty and sensibility it mars, nor the mother, who has a son to lose, nor the rulers of men, who have no surer pledge of the fidelity of their subjects than religion.”

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Author:François-René de Chateaubriand

“Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life. On the contrary, in the abominable worship of atheism, human woes are the incense, death is the priest, a coffin the altar, and annihilation the Deity.”

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Author:François-René de Chateaubriand

“There is no religion without mysteries. God Himself is the great secret of Nature.”

Author:François-René de Chateaubriand

“Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .”

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“I am Bourbon as a matter of honour, royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character.”

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Author:François-René de Chateaubriand