We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
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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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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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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She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
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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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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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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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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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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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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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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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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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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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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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