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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.

But the calm had brought a sort of courage and hope with it. Instead of giving way to thoughts of the worst, he actually found he was trying to believe in better things.

And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.

Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison.

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

"Th' more they laugh th' better for 'em!" Said Mrs. Sowerby, still laughing herself. "Good healthy child laughin's better than pills any day o' th' year."

Magic is a great thing and scarcely any one knows anything about it exept a few people in old books - and Mary a little, because she was born in India, where there are fakirs.

"Of course there must be a lot of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen."

"Is the spring coming?" He said. "What's it like? You don't see it in rooms if you are ill."
"it's the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine, and things pushing up and working under the earth," said Mary.