That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYAnne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
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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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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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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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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t 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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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I’m free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you
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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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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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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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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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