We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYIt’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?
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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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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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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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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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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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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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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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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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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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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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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