We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYI’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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 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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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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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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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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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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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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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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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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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