We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYOne can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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I do know my own mind,’ protested Anne. ‘The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.
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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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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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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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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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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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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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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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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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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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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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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 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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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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