Johanna Spyri - Heidi (1881)

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Saying good night to the mountains, the sun throws his most beautiful rays to them, that they may not forget him till the morning.

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God arranges everything for us, so that we need have no more fear or trouble and may be quite sure that all things will come right in the end.

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His anger led him into what might have been a very grave folly, but when we are angry we are all foolish.

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Go now and wash yourself first, for the sun will laugh at you if he sees how dirty you are.

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God certainly knows of some happiness for us which He is going to bring out of the trouble, only we must have patience and not run away. And then all at once something happens and we see clearly ourselves that God has had some good thought in His mind all along; but because we cannot see things beforehand, and only know how dreadfully miserable we are, we think it is always going to be so.

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Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for. It was not so good as I thought.

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Flowers are made to bloom in the sun and not to be shut up in an apron.

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We must never forget to pray, and to ask God to remember us when He is arranging things, so that we too may feel safe and have no anxiety about what is going to happen.

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Whoever has done a wrong deed and thinks that no one knows it, deceives himself.

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She knows what she sees. She has her eyes in the right place.

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