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.
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.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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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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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t 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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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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Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember 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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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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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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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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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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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