Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
BEATRIX POTTERI 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.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
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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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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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