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Famous Quotes By Eleanor Farjeon

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It seems to me there are no rules, only instances; but perhaps that is because I learned no rules, and am only an instance myself. — Eleanor Farjeon

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In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleetThey barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet! — Eleanor Farjeon

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It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see. — Eleanor Farjeon

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No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning. — Eleanor Farjeon

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Upon your shattered ruins where
This vine will flourish still, as rare,
As fresh, as fragrant as of old.
Love will not crumble. — Eleanor Farjeon

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Ecstasy cannot be constant, or it would kill. — Eleanor Farjeon

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It's no use crying over spilt evils. It's better to mop them up laughing. — Eleanor Farjeon

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The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year. — Eleanor Farjeon

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Morning has broken
Like the first morning.
Blackbird has spoken
Like the first bird. — Eleanor Farjeon

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Dropt tears have hastened your decay
And brought you one step nigher death;
And you have heard, unthrilled, unmoved,
The music of Love's golden breath
And seen the light in eyes that loved.
You think you hold the core and kernel
Of all the world beneath your crust,
Old dial? But when you lie in dust,
This vine will bloom, strong, green, and proved.
Love is eternal. — Eleanor Farjeon

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We do not lose our friends when they die, we only lose sight of them ... — Eleanor Farjeon

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Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge. — Eleanor Farjeon

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Love has no uttermost, as the starshave no number and the sea no rest. — Eleanor Farjeon

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Praise with elation
Praise every morning
Spring's re-creation
Of the First Day! — Eleanor Farjeon

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Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots. — Eleanor Farjeon

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I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me. And if you have sacrificed joy and courage and beauty and wisdom for my sake, I will give them all to you again; and yet you must also give them to me, for they are things in which without you I am wanting. But together we can make them. — Eleanor Farjeon

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In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received. — Eleanor Farjeon

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Of troubles know I none,Of pleasures know I many -I rove beneath the sunWithout a single penny. — Eleanor Farjeon

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Old sundial, you stand here for Time:
For Love, the vine that round your base
Its tendrils twines, and dares to climb
And lay one flower-capped spray in grace
Without the asking on your cold
Unsmiling and unfrowning face. — Eleanor Farjeon

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I want to be good...I try to be good, I do try, and to like everybody. But there are some people - some people I can't like, however much I try. I hate them - there! — Eleanor Farjeon

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All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love. — Eleanor Farjeon

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On Hallowe'en the old ghosts come about us, and they speak to some; to others they are dumb. — Eleanor Farjeon

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There's Carol like a rolling car, And Martin like a flying bird, And Adam like the Lord's First Word, And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, And Peter like a piper's tune, And Alan like the flowing on Of water. And there's John, like John. — Eleanor Farjeon

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He bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but something beyond all consciousness that was both of them. — Eleanor Farjeon