We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYDear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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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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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’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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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 shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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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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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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