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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.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Age: 74 †
Born: 1849
Born: November 24
Died: 1924
Died: October 20
Dramaturge
Novelist
Playwright
Short Story Writer
Writer
Manchester
England
Frances Eliza Hodgson
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
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Wall
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Sang
Trill
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Beak
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Ivy
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World
Lovely
Robins

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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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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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Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.
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Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.
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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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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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... justice is mercy's highest self.
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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 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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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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The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and has slept long and softly and warm when one has gone to sleep in the midst of a fairy story, and has wakened to find it real, one cannot be unhappy or even look as if one were and one could not, if one tried, keep a glow of joy out of one's eyes.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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