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.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYMatthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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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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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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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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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember 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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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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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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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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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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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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