I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYThat is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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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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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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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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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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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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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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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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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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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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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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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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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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