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.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYNext to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?
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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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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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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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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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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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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?
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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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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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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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