She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend – as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYThe world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing 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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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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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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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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It’s so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven’t you?
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I’ll be through with them. That’s a comforting thought
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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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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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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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to 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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