All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
BEATRIX POTTERSunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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 fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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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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