Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
BEATRIX POTTERWhat we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born
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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 have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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Mrs. Tiggy-winkle’s hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIRPINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn’t like to sit too near her.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…
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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
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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 hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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