What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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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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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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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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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I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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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 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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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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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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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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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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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to 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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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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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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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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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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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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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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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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