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.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYNothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t 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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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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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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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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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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