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“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Who knows what the future holds? Only the One God," explained Aidan. "You just live the little bit of life that you can see in front of you. You live it well. And that gets you ready for whatever unfolds next.”
― Jonathan Rogers, The Bark of the Bog Owl

“In our comfort, we have forgotten that virtue is hard. In our wealth, we have forgotten that freedom is expensive.”
― Jonathan Rogers, The Bark of the Bog Owl

“By reading and considering the past, we cut through the thick, strong vines that bind our attention to the things of the moment, and our attention thereby becomes more free.”
― Alan Jacobs, Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“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 Burnett, The Secret Garden

“She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a robin and that he had understood her; she had run in the wind until her blood had grown warm; she had been healthily hungry for the first time in her life; and she had found out what it was to be sorry for someone.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“Love goodness more than you fear evil.”
― Jonathan Rogers, The Bark of the Bog Owl

“Live the life that unfolds before you. The One God is with you.”
― Jonathan Rogers, The Bark of the Bog Owl

“Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“It was a good thing that little lass came to th' Manor. It's been th' makin' o' her an' th' savin' o' him.”
― Francis Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“And even though they had eaten nothing, the girl still ended her day with a belly full of story—which sticks to the ribs even better than mutton.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster

“A soot golem may be a very nice creature,” he said slowly. “But I think I would rather be just Charlie.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster

“I had to stay alive—no matter how bad things got. Because if I died, then there would be no one to keep an eye out for Nan Sparrow.” He looked up at the sky. It was just clear enough to make out the faint glimmer of moonlight. “That’s how it works, doesn’t it? We are saved by saving others.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster

“In a moment of terrible heartbreak, he (The Sweep) had taught her to see wonder.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster

“Her gaze moved to Charlie's frozen face, which seemed to be watching them. "Even now, you're a protector," she said to him. "They're lucky to have you.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster

“It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in. And so on, all day. Standing back from all your natural fussings and frettings; coming in out of the wind.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity