She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend – as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYI’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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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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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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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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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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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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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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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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