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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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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 are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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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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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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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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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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?
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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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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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