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.
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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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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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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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing 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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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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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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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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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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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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