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If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
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Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"... "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine..."
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nature
spring
children
classic
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.
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Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it."
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inspirational
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princess
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.
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kindness
inspirational
givers
giving
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in--that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands out and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's h..
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage. "It makes me feel as if something had hit me," Sara had told Ermengarde once in confidence. "And as if I want to hit back. I hav..
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren't pretty, or smart, or young. They're still princesses.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.
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words
little-princess
frances-hodgson-burnett
communication
language
soul
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable, determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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When people are insulting you, there is nothing so good for them as not to say a word -- just to look at them and think. When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wished they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in -- that's stronger. It's a good thing..
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts--just mere thoughts--are as powerful as electric batteries--as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live... surprising things can h..
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in..
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magic
garden
secrets
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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Perhaps you can feel if you can't hear," was her fancy. "Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted, and don't know why, when I am standing here in the cold and hoping you will get well and happy again."
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.
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reading
princess
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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Might I," quavered Mary, "might I have a bit of earth?"
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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I don't like it, papa," she said. "But then I dare say soldiers - even brave ones - don't really going into battle."
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out about people and creatures and everything that grows - like Dickon - and I shall never stop making Magic. I'm well I'm well
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair. "No," she answered. "I know you by heart. You are inside my heart."
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat," she mused. "Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out: 'Oh, a horrid rat!' I shouldn't like people to scream and jump and say: 'Oh, a horrid Sara!' the moment they saw me, and set traps for me, and pretend they were dinner. It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said: 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow?" --
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choice
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.
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people
truth
self-care
rich
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place. The few books she had read and liked had been fairy-story books, and she had read of secret gardens in some of the stories. Sometimes people went to sleep in them for a hun..
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discovery
life-and-living
life-lessons
inspirational
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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As she came closer to him she noticed that there was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them. She liked it very much and when she looked into his funny face with the red cheeks and round blue eyes she forgot that she had felt shy.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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People never like me and I never like people," she thought. "And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises."
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it.
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robin
birds
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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People never like me and I never like people
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |