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Alice Meynell Inspirational Quotes (45)

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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. Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.
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There is no innocent sleep so innocent as sleep shared between a woman and a child, the little breath hurrying beside the longer, as a child's foot runs.
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Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.
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The cloud controls the light ... It is the cloud that, holding the sun's rays in a sheaf as a giant holds a handful of spears, strikes the horizon, touches the extreme edge with a delicate revelation of light, or suddenly puts it out and makes the foreground shine.
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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.
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I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?
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Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
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Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.
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The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
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Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.
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No mirror keeps its glances.
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the feet should have more of the acquaintance of earth, and know more of flowers, freshness, cool brooks, wild thyme, and salt sand than does anything else about us. ... It is only the entirely unshod that have lively feet.
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Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud.
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With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found too much interpretation, too many rhymes professing to close with her inaccessible utterance, and to agree with her remote tongue. The bell, like the bird, is a musician pestered with literature.
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If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical.
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Childhood is but change made gay and visible.
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The traveling heart went free / With endless streams that strife was stopped / And down a thousand vales I dropped, / I flowed to Italy.
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Tender, too, is the silence of human feet. You have but to pass a season amongst the barefooted to find that man, who, shod, makes so much ado, is naturally as silent as snow.
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... I am dark but fair, / Black but fair.
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Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.
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Children have a fastidiousness that time is slow to cure. It is to be wondered, for example, whether if the elderly were half as hungry as children are they would yet find so many things at table to be detestable.
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Now, in our opinion no author should be blamed for obscurity, nor should any pains be grudged in the effort to understand him, provided that he has done his best to be intelligible. Difficult thoughts are quite distinct from difficult words. Difficulty of thought is the very heart of poetry.
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It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg is the best part of the figure and the best leg is the man s. Man should no longer disguise the long lines, the strong forms, in those lengths of piping or tubing that are of all garments the most stupid.
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There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.
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