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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.
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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...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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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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And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.
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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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As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.
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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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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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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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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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... justice is mercy's highest self.
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The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.
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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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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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we do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if 'tis not granted to us, and then we kneel and kneel and believe, because we must have someone to ask help from.
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Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.
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death is always sudden however long one waits.
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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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a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.
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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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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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