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Alice Meynell Quotes

English - Poet | September 22, 1847 - November 27, 1922

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

Happiness Mind Matter Events Tides

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 It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.

Life Heart Red Color Body Living

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

Humor Laughter Sense Of Humor Act

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 It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood.

Life Heart Red Body Living True

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

Change Value Results Act Valued Our

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

Change Childhood Man Mystery Will

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.

Life Child Long Back Will Follow

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.

Eyes Loneliness Look Human Sign

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.

Travel Memory Angel Strong Name Own

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

Nature Great Time Man Easy Will

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