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Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Age: 74 †
Born: 1849
Born: November 24
Died: 1924
Died: October 20
Dramaturge
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Manchester
England
Frances Eliza Hodgson
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
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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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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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And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.
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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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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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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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Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.
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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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She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not the least afraid she would not like him, though he was only a common moor boy, in patched clothes and with a funny face and a rough, rusty-red head.
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Her affection for everything she could love increased.
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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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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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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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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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All women are princesses , it is our right.
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Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.
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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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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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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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