Frances Hodgson Burnett Quotes

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.

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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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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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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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Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.

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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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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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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.

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She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

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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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One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.

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You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.

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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.

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He had made himself believe that he was going to get well, which was really more than half the battle.

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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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They're a pair of young Satans.

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How is it that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language that is not made up of words & everything in this world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything & it can always speak, without making a sound, to another soul.

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If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor

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