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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

~George Gissing

Topics: Around Get Money Precious Proverb Says Time Time Is Money Truth Turn You

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

~George Gissing

Topics: Bad Bad Weather Beauty Blood Body Day Every Every Day Make Man Mind More Pulse Serene Sound Storms Thing Weather Which Whip

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The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

~George Gissing

Topics: Before Book Excellent First First Time Friend Gained Just Me Meeting New Old Old One Over Read Resembles Time Work

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It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

~George Gissing

Topics: Around Creates Emotions Even Eyes Heart Meadow Mind Never Same See Side Stand Stir Though Touched Us Which Will World Yours

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Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.

~George Gissing

Topics: Any Buy Cheerful Hours Make Me Mine Miserable Money Nay Otherwise Sense Time Use Which Would

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Have the courage of your desire.

~George Gissing

Topics: Courage Desire Your

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Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

~George Gissing

Topics: Event Familiar Persistent Prophecy Way

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That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

~George Gissing

Topics: Bitter Curses Generous Leaves Poverty Right

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Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

~George Gissing

Topics: Form Hopeless Intellectual Most Vice

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It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

~George Gissing

Topics: Because Better Better Things Capacity Individuals Mankind Moves Nations Slowly Stupidity Tend Things Towards

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: November 22nd, 1857

Died: December 28th, 1903

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