Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYMy life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
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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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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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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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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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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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