There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYHow fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn’t it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?
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She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.
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March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.
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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
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