Everything was romantic in my imagination.
BEATRIX POTTERBelieve there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat’s plate.
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Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea – a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another.
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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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