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Things Quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- 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…
- Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your…
- Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have…
- 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…
- Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember…
- There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em.
- Things happen to people by accident.
- But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.
- I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out…
- Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.
- Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or…
- 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…
- If I go on talking and talking...and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better.
- You see, now that trials have come, they have shown that I am NOT a nice child. I was afraid they would. Perhaps... that is…
- I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for…
- The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books.…
- At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite…
- Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being…
- She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.
- Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.
- Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon," said Colin. "It makes her think of ways to do things - nice things.
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle