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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.
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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Manchester
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Frances Eliza Hodgson
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
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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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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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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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If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
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Her affection for everything she could love increased.
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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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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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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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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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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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All women are princesses , it is our right.
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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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Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.
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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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Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)
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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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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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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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