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Terrestrial scenery is much, but it is not all. Men go in search of it; but the celestial scenery journeys to them; it goes its way round the world. It has no nation, it costs no wearinesss, it knows no bonds.
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The feet should have more of the acquaintance of earth, and know more of flowers, freshness, cool brooks, wild thyme, and salt sand than does anything else about us.... It is only the entirely unshod that have lively feet.
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Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.
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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 pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood.
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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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My day-mind can endure
Upright, in hope, all it must undergo.
But O, afraid, unsure,
My night-mind waking lies too low, too low.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
Alice Meynell
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Born:
September 22, 1847
Died:
November 27, 1922
(aged 75)
Bio:
Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.
Known for:
The poems of Alice Meynell (1913)
Ceres' runaway & other essays (1909)
The flower of the mind (1897)
The Rhythm of Life
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