I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYHeretics are wicked, but they’re mighty int’resting. It’s jest that they’ve got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He’s hard to find – which He ain’t never.
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back 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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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen … wonderful things.
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Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?
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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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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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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.
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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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