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.
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.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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It’s so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven’t you?
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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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There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I’ll be through with them. That’s a comforting thought
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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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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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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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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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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember 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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