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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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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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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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March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.
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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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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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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in 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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There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I’ll be through with them. That’s a comforting thought
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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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