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Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

~Alice Meynell

Topics: Depends Events Happiness Matter Mind Tides

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The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.

~Alice Meynell

Topics: Blood Body Color Covered Explicit Heart Implicit Life Living Modest Red True

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The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

~Alice Meynell

Topics: Act Conspicuous Humor Itself Laughter Make Other Sense Sense Of Humor Than Things

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The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood.

~Alice Meynell

Topics: Blood Body Colour Covered Explicit Heart Implicit Life Living Modest Red True

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Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

~Alice Meynell

Topics: Act Change Fathers Our Results Sake Value Valued

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Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

~Alice Meynell

Topics: Change Childhood Further He His Man Mystery Own Renew Sense Turn Will

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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.

~Alice Meynell

Topics: Adding Back Child Far Follow Further His Infancy Life Long Mere Old Seem Throw Traditions Will Years

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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.

~Alice Meynell

Topics: Also Crowds Eyes Familiar Human Loneliness Look Perpetual Sign Tells

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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.

~Alice Meynell

Topics: Abide Accidents Angel Breath Dominant Entire Habits Memory Name Once Own Place Seen Spirit Strong Subtlety Surprise Travel Where

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It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

~Alice Meynell

Topics: Easy Great Great Time Man Nature Replace Take Time Will

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: September 22nd, 1847

Died: November 27th, 1922

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