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 MONTGOMERYAll life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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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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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
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We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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 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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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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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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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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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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Don’t look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can’t be sober and serious – everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.
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