Frances Hodgson Burnett

Life dates: 1849 AD — 1924 AD

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1886 AD

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.

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02c. 1886 AD

How is it that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language that is not made up of words & everything in this world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything & it can always speak, without making a sound, to another soul.

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03c. 1886 AD

What does it say?" asked my lord."It says, `Good-night, God keep you all the night!'--just what she used to say when we were together. Every night she used to say that to me, and every morning she said, `God bless you all the day!' So you see I am quite safe all the time----

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04c. 1886 AD

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.

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05c. 1886 AD

It's a lonely place. Sometimes it's the loneliest place in the world.

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06c. 1886 AD

I know what it is to be hungry, and it is very hard when one cannot even pretend it away. -Sara

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07c. 1886 AD

One of the strangest things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live for ever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender, solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange, unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun - which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so. And one knows it sometimes when one stands by oneself in a wood at sunset and the mysterious deep gold stillness slanting through and under the branches seems to be saying slowly again and again something one cannot quite hear, however much one tries. Then sometimes the immense quiet of the dark blue at night with millions of stars waiting and watching makes one sure; and sometimes a sound of far-off music makes it true; and sometimes a look in someone's eyes.

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08c. 1886 AD

She had never been taught to ask permission to do things, and she knew nothing at all about authority, so she would not have thought it necessary to ask Mrs. Medlock if she might walk about the house, even if she had seen her.

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09c. 1886 AD

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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10c. 1886 AD

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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11c. 1886 AD

It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen.

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