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?
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.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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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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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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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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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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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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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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I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?
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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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