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.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYIn 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
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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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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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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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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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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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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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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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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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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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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When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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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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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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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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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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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March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.
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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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