It’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?
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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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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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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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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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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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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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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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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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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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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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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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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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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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When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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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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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend – as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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