What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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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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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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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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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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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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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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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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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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