I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYmost people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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Heretics 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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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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When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
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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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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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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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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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Anne 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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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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