Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYYouth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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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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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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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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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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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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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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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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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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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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