“ 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. ”
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“ 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 your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—warm things, kind things, sweet things—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all. ”
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“ The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place. The few books she had read and liked had been fairystory books, and she had read of secret gardens in some of the stories. Sometimes people went to sleep in them for a hundred years, which she had thought must be rather stupid. She had no intention of going to sleep, and, in fact, she was becoming wider awake every day which passed at Misselthwaite. ”
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“ My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important. ”
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“ One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts just mere thoughts are as powerful as electric batteries as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. 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 you in you may never get over it as long as you live. ”
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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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“ I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden. ”
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“ I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden. ”
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“ The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place. The few books she had read and liked had been fairystory books, and she had read of secret gardens in some of the stories. Sometimes people went to sleep in them for a hundred years, which she had thought must be rather stupid. She had no intention of going to sleep, and, in fact, she was becoming wider awake every day which passed at Misselthwaite. ”
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“ Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things. ”
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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. "It makes me feel as if something had hit me," Sara had told Ermengarde once in confidence. "And as if I want to hit back. I have to remember things quickly to keep from saying something illtempered. ”
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“ She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself. ”
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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. ”
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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. "It makes me feel as if something had hit me," Sara had told Ermengarde once in confidence. "And as if I want to hit back. I have to remember things quickly to keep from saying something illtempered. ”
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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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“ She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself. ”
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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. ”
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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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“ If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that. ”
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“ Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle may not grow. ”
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“ We do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if it is not granted to us, and then we kneel and believe. ”
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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 be all around us. In this garden-in all the places. ”
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“ We do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if it is not granted to us, and then we kneel and believe. ”
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“ Mother says as th' two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way-or always to have it. She doesn't know which is th' worst. ”
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“ I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden. ”
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“ At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done — then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. ”
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“ I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden. ”
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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 be all around us. In this garden-in all the places. ”
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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 be all around us. In this garden-in all the places. ”
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