She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend – as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYTomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.
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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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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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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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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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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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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn’t it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?
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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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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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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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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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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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 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?
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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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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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