Terrestrial scenery is much, but it is not all. Men go in s… - Alice Meynell

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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 weariness, it knows no bonds.

Alice Meynell

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Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell (11 October 1847 – 27 November 1922) was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.

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Alternative Names: Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell • Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson

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Surely there is but one assumption […] wherewith nearly all thinkers […] have done their work—that is, the confession of the moral law: that there is a good, and that pure cruelty, mere hatred, and ingratitude, for example, are contrary thereto.

From the shaken tower
A flock of bells take flight
And go with the hour.

[I]t is doubtful whether we may name any weak thing as typically spiritual.

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. … - Alice Meynell

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