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James M Barrie Inspirational Quotes (140)

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Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.
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She adored all beautiful things in their every curve and fragrance, so that they became part of her. Day by day, she gathered beauty had she had no heart (she who was the bosom of womanhood) her thoughts would still have been as lilies, because the good is the beautiful.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
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Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.
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Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
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David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.
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Oh, the cleverness of me!
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It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears?
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Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.
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After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness no one except Peter.
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Forever is a very long time Peter
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I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man but to them I turn a deaf ear.
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You just think lovely wonderful thoughts, Peter explained, and they lift you up in the air.
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
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Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.
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They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.
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Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. Greeting, boys, he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silence. He frowned. I am back, he said hotly, why do you not cheer?
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Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.
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You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
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The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.
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You canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.
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