I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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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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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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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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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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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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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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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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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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