We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
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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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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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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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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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Anne, are you killed?’ shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. ‘Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you’re killed.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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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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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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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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