My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYHeretics are wicked, but they’re mighty int’resting. It’s jest that they’ve got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He’s hard to find – which He ain’t never.
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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain’t never likely to be sly or deceitful.
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Don’t look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can’t be sober and serious – everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.
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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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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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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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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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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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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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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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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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Heretics are wicked, but they’re mighty int’resting. It’s jest that they’ve got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He’s hard to find – which He ain’t never.
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