Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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Quotes by James M. Barrie
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God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
Life is a long lesson in humility.
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
I am not young enough to know everything.
We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.
Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.
Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
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