What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…
BEATRIX POTTERThank 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.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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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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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 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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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 have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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