All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYThere are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen … wonderful things.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in 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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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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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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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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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trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons.
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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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