Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYWe 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.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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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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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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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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Anne, 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.
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t 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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