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?
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYNext to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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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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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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I do know my own mind,’ protested Anne. ‘The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.
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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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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend – as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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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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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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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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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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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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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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