What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYNothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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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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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.
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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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Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?
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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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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to 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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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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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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There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I’ll be through with them. That’s a comforting thought
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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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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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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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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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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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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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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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