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.
BEATRIX POTTERThank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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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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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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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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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Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: “One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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