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Flower Quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett

8 Flower quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Frances Hodgson Burnett’s eight short verses on flowers give a quick taste of how she sees nature’s quiet beauty. Though the list is modest, each line captures a different shade of feeling, making this a handy stop for anyone curious about her floral musings.

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“I've seen the spring now and I'm going to see the summer. I'm going to see everything grow here. I'm going to…

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Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must…

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If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

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Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange…

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“I wouldn't want to make it look like a gardener's garden, all clipped an' spick an' span, would you?" he said. "It's…

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“really. But such a nice thing has happened. I have had such a delightful invitation for the first week in August.” “I’m…

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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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Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

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“She said that perhaps it was not so easy to be very rich; that if any one had so many things always, one might…

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I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things…

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“You don't know that you are saying these things to a princess, and that if I chose I could wave my hand and order…

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“Well, it is. One of her 'pretends' is that she is a princess. She plays it all the time—even in school. She says it…

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“They know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage and they are not, and they…

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“Tom's Cabin, and she spent many hours acting out”

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... justice is mercy's highest self.

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