Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYWe should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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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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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.
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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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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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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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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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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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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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Gilbert 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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