How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYFear 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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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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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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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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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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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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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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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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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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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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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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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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to 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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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