"Our fathers valued change for the sake of……" — Alice Meynell

"Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act."

— Alice Meynell

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16 Quotes by Alice Meynell

Alice Meynell has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and…
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look…
The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and…
We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies.…
Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of…
I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?
A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of…
It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much…
It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards…
Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

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More Act Quotes

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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