Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYI 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.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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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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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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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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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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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?
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A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain’t never likely to be sly or deceitful.
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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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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 hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen … wonderful things.
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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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