Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

Alice Meynell's Popular Quotes

There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting-out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage and with so much confidenc…

- Alice Meynell

Red has been praised for its nobility of the color of life. But the true color of life is not red. Red is the color of violence, or of life broken op…

- Alice Meynell

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

- Alice Meynell

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, t…

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I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?

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No mirror keeps its glances.

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There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.

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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 pulse…

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Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

- Alice Meynell