Where you tend a rose, my lad,A thistle cannot grow.
Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Secret Garden, 1911 · Chapter XXVII: In the Garden
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4 passages by Frances Hodgson Burnett, from The Secret Garden. Frances Hodgson Burnett died in 1924, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
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English-American writer (1849–1924), author of Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess and The Secret Garden (1911).
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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.
Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Secret Garden, 1911 · Chapter XXVII: In the Garden
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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.
Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Secret Garden, 1911 · Chapter XXI: Ben Weatherstaff
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Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.
Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Secret Garden, 1911 · Chapter XXVII: In the Garden
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