Heart Quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett

12 Heart quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Victorian storytelling gives the heart a timeless quality. In these 12 passages you’ll sense her ability to blend hope, loss, and the quiet strength of inner resolve.

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Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart.

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“But after a few days spent almost entirely out of doors she wakened”

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“I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.”

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“Lady Maria’s charity-knitting which she had taken up. Emily was so gratified that she found conversation easy. She did not realise that…

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“The very fact that she never made an impudent answer seemed to Miss Minchin a kind of impudence in itself.”

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Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair. "No," she answered. "I know you by heart. You…

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“It was a way of hers always to want to spring into any fray in which someone was made uncomfortable or unhappy.”

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“Everything as strange and silent, and she seemed to be hundreds of miles away from anyone, but somehow she did not feel…

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“She was a friendly creature, and lived a life so really isolated from any ordinary companionship that her simple little talks with…

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“The fact was, however, that she was always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herself remember any time when she…

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“If she had cried and sobbed and seemed frightened, Miss Minchin might almost have had more patience with her. She was a…

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In the garden there was nothing which was not quite like themselves - nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what…

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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 grow here…

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“If she had cried and sobbed and seemed frightened, Miss Minchin might almost have had more patience with her. She was a woman who…

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“I was thinking," she said. "Beg my pardon immediately," said Miss Minchin. "I will beg your pardon for laughing, if it was rude," said…

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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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