We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYMaples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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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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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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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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in 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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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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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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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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