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.
Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. - Alice Meynell
Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
- Alice Meynell
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
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…
Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit. - Alice Meynell
Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.
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. Happines… - Alice Meynell
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. Happines…
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… - Alice Meynell
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…
No mirror keeps its glances. - Alice Meynell
No mirror keeps its glances.
I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear? - Alice Meynell
I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?
There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon. - Alice Meynell
There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.
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
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…
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