Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYMaples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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Gilbert put his arm about them. ‘Oh, you mothers!’ he said. ‘You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.
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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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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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Anne, are you killed?’ shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. ‘Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you’re killed.
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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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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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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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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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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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