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 hab…
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Alice Meynell
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About Alice Meynell
Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell was a British writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet. She was considered for the position of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom twice, first in 1892 on the death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and later in 1913 on the death of Alfred Austin, but was never appointed to the position.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Alice MeynellThe 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.
Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.