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As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Age: 74 †
Born: 1849
Born: November 24
Died: 1924
Died: October 20
Dramaturge
Novelist
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Manchester
England
Frances Eliza Hodgson
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
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That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.
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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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You either build up or you tear down. You either keep in the light where you can see, or you stand in the dark and fight everything that comes near you, because you can't see and you think it's an enemy.
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...and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay parties.
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It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always.
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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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Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.
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Yes, answered Sara, nodding. Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.
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She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do.
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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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She did not know that this was the best thing she could have done, and she did not know that, when she began to walk quickly or even run along the paths and down the avenue, she was stirring her slow blood and making herself stronger by fighting with the wind which swept down from the moor.
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And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.
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Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.
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Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)
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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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Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.
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a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.
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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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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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