Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYAnne, are you killed?’ shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. ‘Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you’re killed.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain’t never likely to be sly or deceitful.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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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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Don’t look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can’t be sober and serious – everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.
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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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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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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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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
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I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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I do know my own mind,’ protested Anne. ‘The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.
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