Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYShe had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
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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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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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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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March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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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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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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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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