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Alice Meynell Quotes: Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.
         

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


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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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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.



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I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?



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