Alice Meynell
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"Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell" was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.

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

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I must not think of thee; and, tired yet strong, / I shun the thought that lurks in all delight - / The thought of thee - and in the blue heaven's height, / And in the sweetest passage of a song.

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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
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Flocks of the memories of the day draw near / The dovecot doors of sleep.

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

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

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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.

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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
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