We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYFancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen … wonderful things.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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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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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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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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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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I do know my own mind,’ protested Anne. ‘The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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