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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More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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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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