We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYOh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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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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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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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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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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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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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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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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Don’t look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can’t be sober and serious – everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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