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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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We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining cloud is one of the most majestic of all secondary lights.

We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining cloud is one of the most majestic of all secondary lights.



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The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.



Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.



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.

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.



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.

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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