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Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.
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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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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The mug from the washstand was used as Becky's tea cup, and the tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend that it was anything but tea.
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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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Yes, answered Sara, nodding. Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.
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When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too . . . she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.
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... justice is mercy's highest self.
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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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Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.
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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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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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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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If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
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Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.
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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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...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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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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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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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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And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.
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