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’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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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 should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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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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But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn’t it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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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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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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