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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.
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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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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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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If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
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Imagine, if you can, what the rest of the evening was like. How they crouched by the fire which blazed and leaped and made much of itself in the little grate. How they removed the covers of the dishes, and found rich, hot savory soup, which was a meal in itself, and sandwiches and toast and muffins enough for both of them.
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However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.
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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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...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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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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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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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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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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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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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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That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.
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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.
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Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.
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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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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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Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, he said wisely one day, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.
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