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 POTTERI remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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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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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea – a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master’s plate, the other on its own.
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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, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…
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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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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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