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 MONTGOMERYIn 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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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.
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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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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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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.
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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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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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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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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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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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