It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.
("The Secret Garden")
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Perhaps you can feel if you can't hear. Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted.Frances Hodgson Burnett
I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.
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Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.
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One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts--just mere thoughts--are as powerful as electric batteries--as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison.
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It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. you just go on and on doing it always. - Sara Crewe
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Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.
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