A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain’t never likely to be sly or deceitful.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYFear 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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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
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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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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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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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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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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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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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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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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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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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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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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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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