I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYShe had a way of embroidering life with stars.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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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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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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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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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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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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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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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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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.
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