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.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYWe 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.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to 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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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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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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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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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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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