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.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYDon’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.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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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 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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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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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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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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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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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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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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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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