trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYtrees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
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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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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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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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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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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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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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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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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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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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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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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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