We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYShe had a way of embroidering life with stars.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.
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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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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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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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.
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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember 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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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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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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