Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYLife, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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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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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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Gilbert put his arm about them. ‘Oh, you mothers!’ he said. ‘You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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 have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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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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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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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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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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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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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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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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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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