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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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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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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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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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to 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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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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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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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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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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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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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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