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George
George: ELIOT-The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. III. Friend more divine than all divinities.
Gain
Gain: Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Gambling
Gambling: Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones; Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones.
Garden
Garden: Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgag'd, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty…
Genius
Genius: As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which…
Gentlemen
Gentlemen: Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman, Who came of decent people.
Gifts
Gifts: My master hath been an honourable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him, which gentlemen have.
Gentleness
Gentleness: He is gentil that doth gentil dedis. S.
Glory
Glory: That every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath
God
God: We rise in glory, as we sink in pride: Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
Gold
Gold: Or else flushed Ganymede, his rosy thigh Half buried in the Eagle's down, Sole as a flying star, shot thro' the sky, Above the…
Goodness
Goodness: Whatever any one does or says, I must be good.
Gossip
Gossip: You're good for Madge or good for Cis Or good for Kate, maybe: But what's to me the good of this While you're not good for me?
Government
Government: *** The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a…
Grace
Grace: Take time enough-all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places.
Gratitude
Gratitude: Stately and tall he moves in the hall, The chief of a thousand for grace.
Greatness
Greatness: Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two…
Grief
Grief: Great is Youth-equally great is Old Agegreat are Day and Night. Great is Wealth-great is Poverty-great is Expression-great is…
Growth
Growth: What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he…
Guests
Guests: And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.
Guilt
Guilt: What we call real estate-the solid ground to build a house on-is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world…
Generosity
Generosity: Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quærere: et Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro Appone. Cease to inquire what the future has in…