We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYShe had a way of embroidering life with stars.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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 not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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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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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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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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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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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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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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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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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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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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