I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYDear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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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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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to 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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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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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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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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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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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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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 never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
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