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?
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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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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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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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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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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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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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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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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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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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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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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