“ 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- Copy
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“ Not excepting the falling stars — for they are far less sudden — there is nothing in nature that so outstrips our unready eyes as the familiar rain. The rods that thinly stripe our landscape, long shafts from the clouds, if we had but agility to make the arrowy downward journey with them by the glancing of our eyes, would be infinitely separate, units, an innumerable flight of single things, and the simple movement of intricate points. ”
- Alice Meynell- Copy
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“ Not excepting the falling stars — for they are far less sudden — there is nothing in nature that so outstrips our unready eyes as the familiar rain. The rods that thinly stripe our landscape, long shafts from the clouds, if we had but agility to make the arrowy downward journey with them by the glancing of our eyes, would be infinitely separate, units, an innumerable flight of single things, and the simple movement of intricate points. ”
- Alice Meynell- Copy
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“ Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. ”
- Alice Meynell- Copy
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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- Copy
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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- Copy
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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- Copy
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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- Copy
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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- Copy
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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- Copy
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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- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ There is some spiritual sloth in his activities, for pessimism is the easier way. ”
- Alice Meynell- Copy
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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- Copy
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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. ”
- Alice Meynell- Copy
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“ If pessimism robs us of laughter it has done worse by 'beguiling us of our tears', not that for its sake they are, but that they are not, shed. ”
- Alice Meynell- Copy
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“ There is some spiritual sloth in his activities, for pessimism is the easier way. ”
- Alice Meynell- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. ”
- Alice Meynell- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. ”
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“ If pessimism robs us of laughter it has done worse by 'beguiling us of our tears', not that for its sake they are, but that they are not, shed. ”
- Alice Meynell- Copy
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“ Baby of the cloud, rain is carried long enough within that troubled breast to make all the multitude of days unlike each other. Rain, as the end of the cloud, divides light and withholds it; in its flight warning away the sun, and in its final fall dismissing shadow… ”
- Alice Meynell- Copy
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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- Copy
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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- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Autumn, for all her show of stormy woods, is apt to be the accomplice of daily human things that lack dignity, and are, in the now accepted sense of a once noble word, comfortable. Besides, her show of stormy forests is done with an abandonment to the pathos of the moment, with dashings and underlinings — we all know the sort of letter, for instance, which answers to the message and proclamation of Autumn, as she usually is in the outer world… ”
- Alice Meynell- Copy
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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- Copy
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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- Copy
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