Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.
More Quotes from Alice Meynell:
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
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.
Alice Meynell
Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
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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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I come from nothing but from wherecome the undying thoughts I bear.
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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.
Alice Meynell
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