Flora Thompson Quotes

• happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events.

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  Happiness, Mind, Events

  Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.52, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Tan silenciosa y sutil es la belleza de diciembre que escapa a la atención de muchas personas durante toda su vida. El color da paso a la forma: cada rama se distingue en un delicado trazado contra el cielo. Nuevas vistas, oscurecidas todo el verano por la hojarasca, se abren ahora.

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  Summer, Sky, People

  "The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside". Book by Flora Thompson. December Chapter, 1986.

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• Era una mañana de niebla terrosa, sol amarillo y altas hendiduras de cielo azul moteado de nubes blancas. Las hojas de los árboles seguían siendo espesas, pero de los arbustos colgaban hilos de gasa desteñidos y los estridentes gritos de inquietud de las golondrinas que rozaban los verdes espacios abiertos del parque anunciaban el otoño y el cambio.

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  Morning, Sunshine, Autumn

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• You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar.

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  Liars, Lying, Thieves

  Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.216, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle.

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  Moving, Circles, Calendars

  "The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside". Book by Flora Thompson. February Chapter, 1986.

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• Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.

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  Art, Ocean, Gains

  Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”

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• Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is an intelligent, self respecting workman, on a level at least with the town artisan. The village rustic of the past no longer exists outside of the comic papers.

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  War, Intelligent, Past

  Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”

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• Al ensayista se le exigen cualidades especiales. Un poema o una novela pueden surgir de la conciencia interior de un autor. Los poetas razonadores deben reforzar la imaginación.

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  Spring, Imagination, Special

  "Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer". Book by Gillian Lindsay, 1990.

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• Candleford Green no era más que un pueblecito y a su alrededor había campos, prados y bosques. En cuanto Laura cruzó el umbral de la puerta, pudo ver algunos de ellos. Pero el mero hecho de ver desde lejos no la satisfacía; anhelaba adentrarse sola en los campos y oír el canto de los pájaros, el tintineo de los arroyos y el susurro del viento entre el maíz, como cuando era niña. Oler y tocar las cosas, la tierra caliente, las flores y la hierba, y quedarse mirando donde nadie pudiera verla, absorbiéndolo todo.

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  Children, Distance, Drinking

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• What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends?

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  Taken, Meals, Loving Friends

  Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.506, David R. Godine Publisher

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• We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.

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  Law, Purity, Goodness

  Flora Thompson (1986). “The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside”, David & Charles

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• Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.

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  Mind, Needs, Quiet

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• Other days, other ways; and, although they have now been greatly improved upon, the old country midwives did at least succeed in bringing into the world many generations of our forefathers, or where should we be now? —

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  Country, Generations, World

  Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.127, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.

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  Good Work, Talkers, Workers

  Flora Thompson (1979). “A Country Calendar, and Other Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• What is charm, it is not a moral quality, it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to add a grain of it to his personality. One either has it or has it not, it cannot be acquired or even cultivated. It is not physical even, it seems to be added to the human personality, an aura, a glow, the gold dust upon a butterfly's wing, the bloom upon a peach.

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  Butterfly, Thinking, Men

  "The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside". Book by Flora Thompson. February Chapter, 1986.

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• Words as to the inner emotions do not come readily to me, for I have led an isolated life mentally and spiritually.

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  Emotion, Isolated

  Flora Thompson (1979). “A Country Calendar, and Other Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Todavía era costumbre en el campo construir con materiales locales producidos lo más cerca posible del lugar elegido, ya que el transporte era difícil, incluso los mejores caminos rurales eran más adecuados para el tráfico a caballo que para las cargas pesadas.

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  Country, Traffic, Heavy

  "Dashpers". Unfinished novel by Flora Thompson. Chapter Two: "A House is Built", 1942.

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• The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.

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  Hijos, Esposo, Esposa

  Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.128, David R. Godine Publisher

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• It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.

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  Struggle, Would Be, Affair

  Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”

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• The luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many.

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  Luxury, Becoming

  Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.431, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present day dances as a poor substitute for the old. From an artistic point of view, they maybe, but in individual freedom and independence of spirit they mark a stage upward.

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  Regret, Past, Views

  "The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside". Book by Flora Thompson. August Chapter, 1986.

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• Readers have no doubt noticed how seldom builders live in houses of their own construction. You will find a town or village expanding in all directions with their masterpieces of modernity in the way of houses and bungalows; but the builder himself you will usually find living nearer the heart of things, snugly and comfortably housed in some more substantial, if less convenient, building of less recent date.

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  Heart, House, Doubt

  Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.308, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.

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  Thinking, Comfort, Philosopher

  Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”

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• Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just turning yellow,with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine.

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  Sunshine, Purple, Yellow

  Flora Thompson (1979). “A Country Calendar, and Other Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Ninguna época puede tenerlo todo y, en el aspecto material, la nuestra es más afortunada que ninguna de las precedentes. Nuestros antepasados parecen haber dominado el arte de vivir mejor que nosotros, cuando una conciencia tranquila, debida en gran parte a la fe inquebrantable de la época, dejaba un poso de energía espiritual con el que disfrutar de la vida.

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  Spiritual, Art, Enjoy Life

  "The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside". Book by Flora Thompson. May Chapter, 1986.

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