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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 in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable, determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Two, Mind, Courageous

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2015). “The Secret Garden”, p.224, Xist Publishing

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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.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Forever, World, Strange

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2006). “The Secret Garden”, p.236, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Things happen to people by accident.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

People, Happens, Accidents

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2015). “A Little Princess: (Illustrated)”, p.34, eKitap Projesi

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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 rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in--that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Strong, Stupid, Princess

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.84, Xist Publishing

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... justice is mercy's highest self.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Self, Justice, Mercy

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2014). “A Lady of Quality”, p.204, Trajectory Inc

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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 that always. The worse thing never quite comes.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Magic, Remember, Little Princess

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Perhaps you can feel if you can’t hear,” was her fancy. “Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted, and don’t know why, when I am standing here in the cold and hoping you will get well and happy again.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Wall, Get Well, Doors

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2017). “A Little Princess”, p.90, Jazzybee Verlag

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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. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Book, Irritation, People

"A Little Princess: Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Told for the First Time".

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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.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Thinking, Looks, Little Princess

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.40, Xist Publishing

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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.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Book, Losing, Difficult

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2015). “A Little Princess (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.56, Diversion Books

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All women are princesses , it is our right.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Princess, Little Princess

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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 how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Positive, Nice, Thinking

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.165, Xist Publishing

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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.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Lovely, Robins, World

Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.52, GENERAL PRESS

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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.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Nice, Rain, Fall

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2006). “The Secret Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.136, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Princess, Gold, Triumph

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “A Little Princess”, p.146, Collector's Library

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To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in, you may never get over it as long as you live.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Long, Mind, Fever

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.168, Penguin

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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.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Boys, Clothes, Speech

Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, L. M. Montgomery, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Eleanor H. Porter (2017). “Charming Novels of Classic Heroines: Pollyanna, The Secret Garden, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm”, p.236, Open Road Media

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Never thee stop believin' in th' Big Good Thing an' knowin' th' world's full of it - and call it what tha' likes. Tha' wert singin' to it when I come into t' garden.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Garden, Likes, World

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911). “The Secret Garden”, Copp Clark Company

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"It's so beautiful!" she said, a little breathless with her speed. "You never saw anything so beautiful! It has come! I thought it had come that other morning, but it was only coming. It is here now! It has come, the Spring!"

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Beautiful, Morning, Spring

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.136, Xist Publishing

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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 was happening to them - the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs. If there had been one person in that garden who had not known through all his or her innermost being that if an Egg were taken away or hurt the whole world would whirl round and crash through space and come to an end... there could have been no happiness even in that golden springtime air.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Hurt, Taken, Heart

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Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Rights, White, Bricks

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My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Mother, People, Important

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2014). “The Secret Garden”, p.15, Oxford University Press

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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 feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Flower, Garden, Squirrels

Dodie Smith, Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Daughter: I Capture the Castle & The Secret Garden”, p.419, Random House

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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.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Beautiful, Book, Facts

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.7, Xist Publishing

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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'.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Morning, Garden, Years

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.67, Penguin

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Born: November 24, 1849
Died: October 29, 1924
Occupation: Playwright
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