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.
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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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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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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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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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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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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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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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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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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?
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March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.
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