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       # 2023-10-01 - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
       
       I found this book in a little free library.  I haven't read it before
       but i clearly remember the 1993 movie based on this book.  Even
       though it is children's literature, i enjoyed reading it.  It is a
       book about health, life, and human redeemability.
       
       # Chapter 26: It's Mother
       
       > Praise God from whom all blessings flow,
       > Praise Him all creatures here below,
       > Praise Him above ye Heavenly Host,
       > Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.  Amen.
       > -- Doxology
       
       "It is a very nice song," he [Colin] said.  "I like it.  Perhaps it
       means just what I mean when I want to shout out that I am thankful
       to the Magic."  He stopped and thought in a puzzled way.  "Perhaps
       they are both the same thing.  How can we know the exact names of
       everything?"
       
       "Do you believe in Magic?" asked Colin...
       
       "That I do, lad," she answered.  "I never knowed it by that name
       but what does th' name matter?  I warrant they call it a different
       name i' France an' a different one i' Germany.  Th' same thing as
       set th' seeds swellin' an' th' sun shinin' made thee a well lad an'
       it's th' Good Thing.  It isn't like us poor fools as think it
       matters if us is called out of our names.  Th' Big Good Thing
       doesn't stop to worrit, bless thee.  It goes on makin' worlds by
       th' million--worlds like us.  Never thee stop believin' in th' Big
       Good Thing an' knowin' th' world's full of it--an' call it what
       tha' likes..."
       
       "Th' Magic listened when tha' sung th' Doxology.  It would ha'
       listened to anything tha'd sung.  It was th' joy that mattered. 
       Eh! lad, lad--what's names to th' Joy Maker," and she gave his
       shoulders a quick soft pat again.
       
       # Chapter 27: In The Garden
       
       In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things
       have been discovered.  In the last century more amazing things were
       found out than in any century before.  In this new century hundreds
       of things still more astounding will be brought to light.  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.  One of the new things people began to find out in
       the last century was that thoughts--just mere thoughts--are as
       powerful as electric batteries--as good for one as sunlight is, or
       as bad for one as poison.  To let a sad thought or a bad one get
       into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get
       into your body.  If you let it stay there after it has got in you
       may never get over it as long as you live.
       
       Much more surprising things can happen to any one who, when a
       disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has
       the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an
       agreeable determinedly courageous one.  Two things cannot be in one
       place.
       
       author: Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924
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