Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
BEATRIX POTTERI am worn to a raveling.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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 hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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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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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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