recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but … - Alice Meynell

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One of my biggest heroes and people I was fortunate enough to be around is David Bowie. I look at his career, and he always had the balls to break things that weren't broken, to step away from something and try something new, at risk of failing.

Alice Meynell

recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year. Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Depends, Events, Mind, Next Week, Suffered, Years

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In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate and ashamed. See the curious history of the political rights of woman under the Revolution. On the scaffold she enjoyed an ungrudged share in the fortunes of party. Political life might be denied her, but that seems a trifle when you consider how generously she was permitted political death.

Blood, Curious, Life, Party, Rights, Unpublished

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.

Cost, Costs, Journey, Journeys, Men, Wearinesss

The traveling heart went free
With endless streams; that strife was stopped;
And down a thousand vales I dropped,
I flowed to Italy.

Endless, Free, Heart, Strife, Traveling

. . . I am dark but fair,
Black but fair.

Black, Dark, Fair, Fairs

I have known some grim bells, with not a single joyous note in the whole peal, so forced to hurry for a human festival, with their harshness made light of, as though the Bishop of Hereford had again been forced to dance in his boots by a merry highwayman.

Bishop, Bishops, Highwayman, Light, Sound, Though