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 MONTGOMERYIt’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?
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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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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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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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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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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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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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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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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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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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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’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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