Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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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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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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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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.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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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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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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