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Frances Hodgson Burnett Quotes

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English Playwright, Writer November 24, 1849 – October 29, 1924

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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 fairy-story 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... Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett quote: "It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person..."
It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before. Frances Hodgson Burnett
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
Frances Hodgson Burnett quote: "If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be..."
If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor Frances Hodgson Burnett
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
Perhaps you can feel if you can't hear. Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted. Frances Hodgson Burnett
People never like me and I never like people," she thought. "And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises. Frances Hodgson Burnett

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