Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.
"Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell" was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.
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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.
Flocks of the memories of the day draw near / The dovecot doors of sleep.
It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
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.
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.
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