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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.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Age: 74 †
Born: 1849
Born: November 24
Died: 1924
Died: October 20
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Manchester
England
Frances Eliza Hodgson
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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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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.
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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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Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.
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Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.
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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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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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The mug from the washstand was used as Becky's tea cup, and the tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend that it was anything but tea.
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Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.
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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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Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon, said Colin. It makes her think of ways to do things - nice things.
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All women are princesses , it is our right.
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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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It's so beautiful! she said, a little breathless with her speed. You never saw anything so beautiful! It has come! I thought it had come that other morning, but it was only coming. It is here now! It has come, the Spring!
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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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Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)
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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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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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a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.
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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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