What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYI shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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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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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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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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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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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I’m free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you
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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.
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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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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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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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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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