What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
BEATRIX POTTERThank 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.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea.
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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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