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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY

Ambition Anxiety Self
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.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY

Jest Look Lost Sorter Wicked
How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY

Imagination Realms View
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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Duty Faces Found Friend
What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY

Easy Imagination Reality
Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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Dance Fancy Shadow
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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May Stars Twilight
Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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Deal Desert Gently
All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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College Everywhere Lesson Life
But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn’t it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY

Believe Color Drab Rather Wise
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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Get Harder Satisfaction
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY

Long Memories Remember
I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY

Come Face Fact World
Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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Forever Heart Vanish Youth
That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY

Animal Good Things Nature Spring
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY

Forward Future Mistake Regret

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

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