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Letter "A" » Alice Meynell Quotes
«Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.»
«If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.»
Author: Alice Meynell
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crowds
«Recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year.»
Author: Alice Meynell
«Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind»
Author: Alice Meynell
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Happiness
«Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.»
Author: Alice Meynell
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Family
«It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.»
«I must not think of thee; and, tired yet strong, / I shun the thought that lurks in all delight - / The thought of thee - and in the blue heaven's height, / And in the sweetest passage of a song.»
«Flocks of the memories of the day draw near / The dovecot doors of sleep.»
Author: Alice Meynell
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draw near
«The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.»
Author: Alice Meynell
«Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.»
Author: Alice Meynell
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remoteness
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