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Frances Hodgson Burnett — Portrait after a picture by Herbert Rose Barraud (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

English-American playwright and author

1849–1924

6 quotes, most often on Children and Thinking.

Mother says as th’ two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way⁠—or always to have it. She doesn’t know which is th’ worst.
The Secret Garden (1911), Chapter XVIIIIn context
- Children
When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.
The Secret Garden (1911), Chapter IIn context
- Children
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done⁠—then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
The Secret Garden (1911), Chapter XXVIIIn context
- Change
- Ideas
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. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body.
The Secret Garden (1911), Chapter XXVIIIn context
- Health
- Thinking
Where you tend a rose, my lad,
A thistle cannot grow.
The Secret Garden (1911), Chapter XXVIIIn context
- Nature
- Thinking
One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever.
The Secret Garden (1911), Chapter XXIIn context
- Life & Death

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