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Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885–1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).

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Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.

Chaos, Everything, Language, Understands, World

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.

Comfort, Empty, Hands, Laughter, Princess, Sweet

Soldiers don't complain. . . I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.

Complaining, Part, Pretend, Soldier, War

Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.

Lots, Magic, Magic In The World, Make, People, Secret Garden

Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.

Lovely, Quite, Robins, World

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.

Lots, Make, Nice, Positive, Say, Thinking

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.

Boys, Clothes, Easy, Like, Patched, Speech

Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.

Stories, Story

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

Contrary, Mary, Mistress, Quite

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 done harm and have been wicked.

Clever, Harm, Healing, People, Quickly, Worth

when the day comes that I kneel by your bedside and see your eyes close, or you kneel by mine, it must be that the one who waits behind shall know the parting is not all.

Behinds, Close, Day, Eye, Know, Waiting

we do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if 'tis not granted to us, and then we kneel and kneel and believe, because we must have someone to ask help from.

Believe, Die, Granted, Prayer, Thing, Want

As she came closer to him she noticed that there was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them. She liked it very much and when she looked into his funny face with the red cheeks and round blue eyes she forgot that she had felt shy.

Blue, Cheeks, Eye, Fresh, Heathers, Looked

I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out about people and creatures and everything that grows - like Dickon - and I shall never stop making Magic. I'm well I'm well

Forever, Magic, People, Thousands

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 what they were sent for. . . I suppose there MIGHT be good in things, even if we don't see it.

Afraid, Children, Come, Nice, See, Trials

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

Beautiful, Book, Books, Fact, Stories, Telling

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.

Afterward, Enemies, Princess, Strong, Stupid

To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman

Frenchman, Robin, Robins, Speak, Speaking French

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.

Like, Little Princess, Looks, Nothing, Says, Thinking

It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always.

Begin, Easy, Goes On, Stop

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