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.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYHow fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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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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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with 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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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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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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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken 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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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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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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