We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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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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We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
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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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She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
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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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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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Don’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.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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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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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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