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.
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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons.
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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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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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Matthew, 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.
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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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I do know my own mind,’ protested Anne. ‘The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.
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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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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen … wonderful things.
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