What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYMarch 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.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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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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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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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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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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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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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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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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