Top 23 Eleanor Farjeon Quotes

#1. 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!

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#2. All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.

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#3. 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.

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#4. Morning has broken
Like the first morning.
Blackbird has spoken
Like the first bird.

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

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#6. In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleetThey barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet!

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#7. We do not lose our friends when they die, we only lose sight of them ...

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#8. Praise with elation
Praise every morning
Spring's re-creation
Of the First Day!

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

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#10. Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.

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#11. 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.

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#12. 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.

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#13. 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.

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#14. In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received.

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#15. It's no use crying over spilt evils. It's better to mop them up laughing.

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#16. Of troubles know I none,Of pleasures know I many -I rove beneath the sunWithout a single penny.

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#17. Ecstasy cannot be constant, or it would kill.

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#18. The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

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#19. 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.

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#20. Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.

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#21. 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.

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#22. It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.

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#23. Love has no uttermost, as the starshave no number and the sea no rest.

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