To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman
("The Secret Garden")
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It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.Frances Hodgson Burnett
If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.
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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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She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.
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And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.
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