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 POTTERBelieve there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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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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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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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 hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat’s plate.
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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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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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