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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.
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When a man looks at the stars, he grows calm and forgets small things. They answer his questions and show him that his earth is only one of the million worlds. Hold your soul still and look upward often, and you will understand their speech. Never forget the stars.
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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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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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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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If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
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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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