The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYGilbert 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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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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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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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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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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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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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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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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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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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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